Week 52 of Brutal U.S./Zionist Crimes
Human Toll of Israel's War of Extermination in Gaza
October 4 marked the 363rd day of Israel's genocide against Gaza. The U.S./Zionist occupation forces have slaughtered 41,802 Palestinians and injured 96,844 in the Gaza Strip according to the latest tally by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The numbers are likely much much higher as thousands remain either buried under the rubble or unaccounted for, due to the Zionist aggression and inability of civil defense teams to reach the victims because of the systematic destruction of their resources, equipment, and civilian infrastructure. Journalists, health care workers, UN staff and many others have also been targeted by Israel.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continue to commit massacres and acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip. They committed eight massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the 24 hours preceding October 3. In these, 99 people were killed and 169 wounded.
Eighteen Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the evening of October 3 that targeted a café in the Tulkarm refugee camp, located in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli warplanes launched at least one missile at the café in the al-Hamam neighbourhood while several Palestinians, mainly women and children, were present.
Smoke rising from Israeli airstrike on a cafe in Tulkarm refugee
camp, October 3, 2024.
An airstrike of this kind by an Israeli fighter jet in the West Bank is unprecedented since the Second Intifada in 2000, Palestinian sources said.
"Hamas considered the Israeli aerial bombardment of the Tulkarm camp a dangerous escalation in the occupation's continuous aggression on the West Bank," Palestine Chronicle reported. The attack was more evidence of Israeli bankruptcy in light of its failure on the ground to break the resolve of the Palestinian people and their escalating resistance, Hamas said.
A comprehensive strike was announced in various governorates on October 4, to mourn those killed by the Israeli occupation army in Tulkarm refugee camp, Hamas said.
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October
5, 2024
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