May 19, 2021: Dima Sa’d ‘Ali ‘Asaliyia, 10, was killed by Israeli missiles fires by the army at her family’s home in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said Dima suffered various shrapnel wounds to several parts of her body, leading to her death.
The Israeli army also fired at least 10 shells at the Palestinian houses in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
One of those shells fell on a house belonging to Zakaria Mohammed Hamad and targeted the 3rd floor. As a result, Zakaria’s son, Raied (32), was killed and another child was wounded.
On That day, Israeli missiles and shells struck dozens of homes, residential buildings, and various civilian facilities, killing Dima and Zakariya and wounding fifty-two others, including sixteen children and thirteen women. As a result, tens of houses, a company, vehicles, and shops were partially damaged.
Dima was from Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip. Source: PCHR
May 19, 2021: Nagham Eyad Salha, 2, was killed by Israeli missiles in her home in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip, along with her wheelchair bound father, Eyad Abdul-Fattah Salha, 33, and her 7 months pregnant mother, Amani Yousef Mohawesh, 33.
“They were just sitting and their home and eating,” Eyad, her uncle brother said, “What do they [Israel] think he was doing, firing missiles from his wheelchair?! What did he, his pregnant wife, and their daughter, do to be mutilated like this?!”
Local sources said the family was sitting in their kitchen, eating dinner, with the Israeli shell struck their home.
The Israeli army also killed another Palestinian after the soldiers fired a shell that shell struck an area near the al-Abrar mosque in Gaza and added that several Palestinians were injured, some seriously.
The army also fired many artillery shells into residential areas across the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip, including the Sheja’eyya area, east of Gaza city, and Deir al—Balah in central Gaza.
Eyad Salha and his daughter
In addition, a child, only 2.5 years of age, was killed when Israeli missiles struck the family home in northern Gaza.
“What did my child do to them? Fired missiles?! Threatening their security?!”, the child’s father said, “This is Israel’s bank of targets in Gaza, our children!”
On that day, the Health Ministry stated that the Israeli missiles and shells have led to the killing of 227 Palestinians, including 64 children, 38 women, and 17 elderly, in addition to wounding 1620 Palestinians.
Nagham was from Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza strip. Source: IMEMC
May 18th, 2021: Mena Eyad Fathi Sharir, 2, succumbed to wounds she sustained in an Israeli airstrike that destroyed her family’s house on their heads on al-Nafaq Street on 11 May 2021. It should be noted that Menna’s father, mother, and her sister were killed in that airstrike as well.
Mena’s whole family, including her parents and older sister Lina Eyad Fathi Sharir, 16, were killed by the Israeli airforce in their home, in a targeted assassination in al-Manara neighborhood on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
The family’s 2-story house was destroyed over its residents when the army fired a missile into their home – Eyad, his wife Layali Taha ‘Abbas Sharir (41) and their daughter Lina (16) were killed. Lina’s body was retrieved few hours after the airstrike, and her body was torn into pieces. Eyad’s younger daughter, 2-year old Menna Eyad Fathi Sharir, survived the initial attack that killed her parents and sister, but succumbed to her wounds a week later on May 18th.
Also, the area sustained severe damage because it is densely populated. 25 Palestinians in the surrounding area were wounded due to the blast.
The family was killed when the Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, in addition to killing at least 8 Palestinians, and injuring more than 152.
Media sources said the strikes targeted many homes, residential buildings, structures, farmlands, and sites run by armed resistance groups, in several parts of the Gaza strip.
Two Palestinians were seriously injured late at night, Tuesday, when an Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinians who gathered west of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
The army claimed Abu Sharir is one of the military leaders of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Mohammad Abdul-Rauf Hallas
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the army fired missiles into buildings adjacent to the Indonesian hospital, causing damage to the buildings and the hospital, and denounced the attack as another war crime violating International Law by targeting medical and civilian structures.
The Israeli army also fired missiles into a residential tower, containing many floors, causing it to collapse and turning it into rubble.
Media sources in Gaza said the Israeli missiles targeted Hanadi Tower in the al-Mina’ (Port) area, west of Gaza city, and added that the army first fired smaller missiles into the tower before the Palestinians rushed out just minutes before the further strike turned it into rubble.
A Palestinian identified as Mohammad Abdul-Rauf Hallas, died on Tuesday evening, from wounds he suffered when the soldiers bombarded the Sheja’eyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
Kamal Taiseer Qreiqe’, 35
Amira Abdul-Fattah Sobeh, 63, killed by an Israeli shell targeting her apartment in the Shati’ refugee camp.
Abdul-Rahman Sobeh, 19, the son of Amira, who suffered from cerebral palsy since birth, killed in the same bombing.
An Israeli missile killed Kamal Taiseer Qreiqe’, 35, in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city.
Israeli sources said two Israelis were killed, and two were injured, one seriously, by Palestinian shells in Asqalan.
The Al-Jazeera News Agency reported that the Israeli army fired missiles into a school for orphans in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army fired missiles into a building in Gaza city, killing Sameh Fahim Hashem al-Mamlouk, 34.
A Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Yahia Mohammad Abu al-Ata, 30, was killed in one of the Israeli strikes in Gaza city, medical sources said.
The army also fired a missile at a Palestinian car, in Gaza, causing injuries, while the Israeli navy fired sporadic missiles at sites close to the Gaza shore.
Sameh Fahim Hashem al-Mamlouk, 34
Medical sources in Gaza also said two Palestinians were killed, and eight were injured, when the army fired missiles into an apartment in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza. Most of the wounded are children.
The Israeli army also fired a barrage of missiles targeting homes and residential buildings in the al-Shati’ refugee camp, in northern Gaza, causing excessive damage.
Mohammad Yahia Abu al-Ata, 30
The two Palestinians are senior leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and were killed in targeted assassination strikes.
As of Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has confirmed that Israeli airstrikes have killed 27 Palestinians, including 9 children and one woman, and wounded at least a hundred in the Gaza Strip. Israel began its assault on Gaza Monday evening, following three weeks of Israeli settler and soldier attacks on Palestinians.
It added that at least 122 Palestinians have been injured, including more than 15 who suffered serious wounds and said that among the injured are 41 children.
In addition, the Al-Jazeera news agency has reported that the Israeli army fired, on Tuesday afternoon, several missiles and shells targeting many areas in the eastern, and northeastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources said Palestinian fighters fired more than 40 shells within a few minutes, into Asqalan and Ashdod, and added that the shells caused damage and five injuries.
They added that more than 300 shells were fired from Gaza since Monday evening, especially when Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in retaliation to the Israeli offensive on Gaza, and the escalating violations in Jerusalem, mainly in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque, and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said it managed to fire 137 shells into Ashdod and Asqalan within five minutes and added that warned that its retaliation will be unprecedented if Israel does not end its offensive on Gaza, and does not stop its violations against the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, especially in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
On its part, the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad said its “response to the Israeli crimes against civilians, and resistance fighters, is just beginning.”
Its statement came after Israeli assassinated several prominent members of the group in Gaza and vowed to keep Israel on constant alert.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army has decided to deploy more than five thousand reservists, across the fence with Gaza, in preparation for a possible ground offensive.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources said that a man, 52, and his daughter, 16, were killed by Palestinian shells in Lod city.
They added that one Israeli was killed and three injured, on Tuesday at night, when Palestinian fighters fired dozen of shells into central Israel.
An Israeli woman, 50, was also killed by a Palestinian shell in Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv.
Three Israelis, including a child, were injured in Holon when an empty bus was hit by a shell and went up in flames.
Israeli Ynet News reported that two women were killed by shells in Ashkelon, in the southern part of the country, and added that more than 100 were injured.
The two women were the first to be killed in Israel since the escalation started; one of the women was later named Soumya Santhosh, a 30-year-old mother of a nine-year-old child. Soumya was from Kerala, India, and was working as a caregiver in Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israeli far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu said that it was not ruling out a ground offensive into Gaza, in addition to the ongoing airstrikes.
Hamas movement aid it fired dozens of shells into Israeli in response to the Israeli offensive and warned to escalate if Israel does not stop bombing Gaza.
Abu Obeida, the spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, said if Israel continued to target civilian homes in Gaza, “Tel Aviv will be next and will witness much more than what happened in Asqalan (Ashkelon).”
Layali was from al-Manara neighborhood, in Gaza City. Source: PCHR
May 18, 2021: Islam Wael Burnat, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with a live round in the head, after the army invaded Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked nonviolent protesters, many Palestinians were also injured.
Islam was shot with a live round in the head after the army invaded the village.
Adham al-Kashef
On that day, the soldiers also killed Adham Fayez Mousa Kashef, 20, at the northern entrance of al-Biereh city, near Ramallah.
Adham was from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in al-Biereh city.
Media sources in Ramallah said the soldiers attacked Palestinian protesters near the al-Biereh city, and fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets at them.
They added that the soldiers killed a young man, identified as Mohammad Ishaq Hmeid, 25, in addition to shooting at least sixty-four with live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets and causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Mohammad-Hmeid
The Health Ministry in Ramallah has confirmed that Hmeid, from Beit Anan town, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, suffered a severe injury to the chest before he was rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, where he succumbed to his wounds.
The Health Ministry added that six of the injured Palestinians suffered serious wounds.
It added that the soldiers also directly targeted a Palestinian ambulance with several rounds of live ammunition, in addition to firing at reporters and press cars.
After the death of the Palestinian, several armed resistance fighters exchanged fire with the soldiers near the northern entrance of al-Biereh. An Israeli military spokesperson said two soldiers were injured.
In related news, the soldiers shot one Palestinian with live fire in the leg in Beit Sira village, west of Ramallah.
Islam was from Bil’in village, near Ramallah. Source: IMEMC
May 17, 2021: Obeida Akram Jawabra, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with live ammunition in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Medical sources said Obaida sustained a gunshot wound to his chest during a protest at the entrance of the camp located near Route 60, the main route in the West Bank connecting Hebron and Jerusalem.
He was shot in the heart by an Israeli soldier deployed about seventy meters (230 feet) away fired the fatal shot, according to eyewitnesses interviewed by Defense for Children International – Palestine.
Dozens of Palestinian civilians gathered at the entrance of the camp and attempted to resist the army invasion; however, they were met with excessive use of force by the Israeli army, causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
In related news, Palestinian activist groups, on Monday, have called for mass protests on Tuesday, May 18 to show opposition to the continuous Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the past 10 days.
Rights groups began to organize via social media platforms and by early afternoon political groups and unions joined the effort.
The statement also called for mass protests all over the West Bank, Gaza, and Palestinian communities inside of the 1948 Palestinian territories (Israel) to stop Israel’s vicious assault on Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Furthermore, prior to this report, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli forces have killed 21 Palestinians, including one child, and injured 3728 in the West Bank alone.
The report added that Israeli airstrikes and shelling of residential buildings and infrastructure in the besieged Gaza Strip, has killed 198 Palestinian civilians, including fifty-eight children and thirty-five women, and injuring 1300, and terrorizing the entire population of the coastal enclave.
Obaida was from the al-Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Source:DCI, IMEMC
May 17, 2021: Yousef Rafiq al-Baz, 13, was killed by an Israeli missile in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip.
At approximately 12:40, an Israeli drone launched a missile at a house in Deir al-Balah, killing Yousef and wounding his brother, Ramadan.
The army also fired a missile at a nearby carwash sustained severe damage.
On that day, the nineth day of the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said the Israeli army launched dozens of intense airstrikes, along with artillery and gunboats shelling.
As a result, more houses and civilian facilities were targeted. Moreover, the only Covid-19 laboratory is no longer able to carry out tests due to an Israeli airstrike near the Headquarter of the Ministry of Health and al-Rimal Clinic. The violent artillery shelling also continued, forcing more residents to leave.
The PCHR added that the Israeli missiles killed ten Palestinians, including a woman and two children, and the injury of 122 others, including twenty-two women and forty children.
Also, the Israeli airstrikes targeted sixteen houses, several facilities, governmental sites and headquarters, and infrastructure on a wide scale. Thus, the number of targeted houses has risen to 134, including multi-story buildings and several towers.
The PCHR added that the death toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive has risen to 213, including sixty-one children and thirty-five women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 958, including 291 children and 206 women.
According to the daily update by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the total number of injuries has risen to 1440, including four hundred children and 270 women. Among those injuries: fifty were critical and 340 ranged between serious and moderate.
Yousef was from Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip. Source: PCHR
May 17, 2021: Rafif Ziad Abu Dayer, 11, was killed by Israeli missiles that struck her home in the Shawwa building in Gaza city.
Her father, Ziad, was also killed in the attack, while dozens of Palestinains have been injured.
The Israeli army fired at night and during the day Monday, hundreds of missiles, and shells into many parts of the Gaza Strip, hitting many buildings, public facilities, roads, and infrastructure, in addition to many homes, residential and commercial towers, killing dozens of Palestinians and injuring more.
Media sources in Gaza said many of the slain Palestinians are families that were killed by Israeli missiles targeting their homes or apartment buildings. At least twelve additional Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in the latest wave of Israeli aggression.
In addition, the army assassinated a senior political leader of the Islamic Jihad, identified as Husam Abu Harbeed, after firing a missile at his home near Abu Haseera Junction, west of Gaza city, in addition to killing two other Palestinian, and wounding three, after firing a missile at their car in the same area.
Medical sources said another Palestinian, identified as Yahia Mansour Ghaben, died from serious wounds he suffered, two days ago, during the extensive Israeli bombing of Beit Lahia.
At least one Palestinian from the Abu Jalhoum family was killed, and many others were injured by Israeli missiles, west of the al-Amoudi area, in northern Gaza.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinians, east of the city, killing one, identified as Ahmad Arafat, and wounding several others.
The army also fired missiles into the Tal Za’tar neighborhood, in northern Gaza, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others.
In Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, the army fired artillery shells at homes and streets, killing many Palestinians, including children, in addition to killing Aa’ed Masoud, 24, in the al-Qasayeb neighborhood in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the soldiers bombarded a home for the al-Masri family, wounding at least five Palestinians, including four children, in addition to causing a severe injury to one Palestinian in Wadi as-Salqa area, south of Deir al-Balah.
The army targeted infrastructure, residential and commercial towers including those used by Palestinian and international media agencies, medical centers, many schools, and mosques, in addition to various buildings along the Gaza Strip.
On Monday evening, a child was killed, and dozens were injured, after the army fired missiles at a residential tower in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city.
The army also fired a missile at a residential tower in the Remal neighborhood in Gaza, killing one child and wounding more than 10 Palestinians. The attack caused severe damage to the building and nearby colic, wounding many patients.
It took place just a few meters away from where the army killing more than 40 Palestinians, and injuring dozens, on Sunday at dawn.
Before the latest Israeli escalation, the Health Ministry in Gaza said Israeli missiles and shells have led to the death of 212 Palestinians, including 61 children, 36 women, and 16 elderlies, in addition to wounding more than 1400, including dozens of women and children, many of them in serious conditions.
Media sources in Gaza said many of the slain Palestinians are families that were killed by Israeli missiles targeting their homes or apartment buildings. At least twelve additional Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in the latest wave of Israeli aggression.
In addition, the army assassinated a senior political leader of the Islamic Jihad, identified as Husam Abu Harbeed, after firing a missile at his home near Abu Haseera Junction, west of Gaza city, in addition to killing two other Palestinian, and wounding three, after firing a missile at their car in the same area.
Medical sources said another Palestinian, identified as Yahia Mansour Ghaben, died from serious wounds he suffered, two days ago, during the extensive Israeli bombing of Beit Lahia.
At least one Palestinian from the Abu Jalhoum family was killed, and many others were injured by Israeli missiles, west of the al-Amoudi area, in northern Gaza.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinians, east of the city, killing one, identified as Ahmad Arafat, and wounding several others.
The army also fired missiles into the Tal Za’tar neighborhood, in northern Gaza, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others.
In Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, the army fired artillery shells at homes and streets, killing many Palestinians, including children, in addition to killing Aa’ed Masoud, 24, in the al-Qasayeb neighborhood in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the soldiers bombarded a home for the al-Masri family, wounding at least five Palestinians, including four children, in addition to causing a severe injury to one Palestinian in Wadi as-Salqa area, south of Deir al-Balah.
The army targeted infrastructure, residential and commercial towers including those used by Palestinian and international media agencies, medical centers, many schools, and mosques, in addition to various buildings along the Gaza Strip.
On Monday evening, a child was killed, and dozens were injured, after the army fired missiles at a residential tower in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city.
The army also fired a missile at a residential tower in the Remal neighborhood in Gaza, killing one child and wounding more than 10 Palestinians. The attack caused serious damage to the building and nearby colic, wounding many patients.
It took place just a few meters away from where the army killing more than 40 Palestinians, and injuring dozens, on Sunday at dawn.
Before the latest Israeli escalation, the Health Ministry in Gaza said Israeli missiles and shells have led to the death of 212 Palestinians, including 61 children, 36 women, and 16 elderlies, in addition to wounding more than 1400, including dozens of women and children, many of them in serious conditions.
May 16, 2021: Dima Rami (al-Efranji) Abu Al-Auf, 16, was killed by Israeli missiles that struck a residential tower in the al-Wihda Street in Gaza city.
She was killed along with seven members of her family who were huddled together in their home during the sixth straight night of Israeli airstrikes pounding down on residential areas in Gaza. They were all civilians, ranging in age from 4 to 82. All were women and children, apart from her great uncle Tawfiq, age 82, who was killed along with his 80 year old wife.
On Sunday, 16 May 2021, medical and Civil Defense crews pulled out thirteen dead bodies, including three women and seven children, from under the rubble of their houses on al-Wehda Street, raising the number of deaths to forty-three, most of them were children and women.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Subhiya Ismael Hussain Abu al-Ouf (73), Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qolaq (90), Tawfiq Ismael Hussain Abu al-Ouf (80) and his wife, Majdiya Khalil Hussain Abu al-Ouf (82), Raja’ Subhi Isma’el al-Ifranji “Abu al-Ouf and 3 of her children, Mira Rami Riyad al-Ifranji (12), Yazan (13), Ameer (9), and Hala Mohammed Mo’een al-Qolaq (13), and her sister, Yara (10), Rola (6) and Lana (4), Riyad Hasan Shkontana, and Mohammed Ahmed Musbah Ikki (40).
On that day, Israeli missiles and shells killed 23 Palestinians, including three women and seven children, in addition to wounding fifty-three, including eighteen children and eight women.
Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of airstrikes on various targets across the city.
As a result, a Palestinian was killed and twelve others were wounded, including three women and five children.
The airstrikes targeted five residential multi-story buildings, main roads and vital streets, security sites belonging to the Ministry of Interior, sites belonging to the Palestinian Resistance, public facilities, shops and a civilian. On the other hand, the civil Defense crews retrieved thirteen dead bodies, including 3 women and 7 children, from under the rubble of their houses on al-Wehda Street.
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights said the death toll reached 204 Palestinians on day eight of the Israeli offensive; among the death are fifty-nine children and thirty-four women, while the number of injuries reached 836, including 251 children and 184 women.
The Israeli army declared the beginning of the of the third phase of military offensive on the Gaza Strip, adding that fifty-four warplanes fired 110 missiles against thirty-five targets within 20 minutes, including fifteen kilometer-tunnels; according to army’s claims, while the facts on the ground indicate that the airstrikes targeted more houses, facilities, and streets.
The power outage crisis in the Gaza Strip aggravated as the electricity supply dropped to three to four hours a day that is inadequate for the vital facilities to provide services to the people of the Gaza Strip.
The Electricity Company stated that the components of the electricity distribution network sustained massive destruction as five main electric power transmission lines, which supply sixty megawatts, broke down since the beginning of the offensive while the rest lines break down from time to time and become out of service due to the airstrikes and destruction of many places.
The power plant warned that it would be forced to shut down this evening due to insufficient fuel supply. The Power Generating Company announced that “J4” electric power transmission line, which supplies Gaza City and passes through Street 8 and Street 10, sustained severe damage due to the intense airstrikes on the area. As a result, the electricity went off on vacant areas in the city.
The forced displacement of tens of thousands of residents from their houses in eastern Gaza Strip continued due to the violent artillery shelling as shelters were opened to receive them without so far providing adequate circumstances. Also, all aspects of daily life have been disrupted due to the non-stop airstrikes.
A day earlier, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of airstrikes while the Israeli gunboats and artillery shelled various and indiscriminate targets across the Gaza Strip.
As a result, 23 Palestinians, including three women and seven children were killed, while fifty-three others, including 8 women and eighteen children, were injured. Additionally, the airstrikes targeted twenty-one houses, several facilities, governmental headquarters, and infrastructure on a wide scale. Thus, the number of targeted houses has risen to 115, including multi-story buildings and several towers.
The large numbers of injuries increased the burden on medical crews and the already exhausted healthcare system due to the Israeli-imposed closure and the outbreak of coronavirus in addition to the negative impact of power outage on the operation of laboratories, blood banks and surgeries, especially considering the growing number of injuries. Also, during these days, Gaza hospitals rely on generators due to long hours of power outage, rendering hospitals in urgent need of constant supply of fuel.
During the 11-day Israeli assault on Gaza between May 10th and 21st, 2021, 247 Palestinians were killed, including 66 children and 39 women; 1417 wounded, including 277 women and 412 children. 9 Israelis, including 2 children, were killed during the same time period. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which documented these attacks, has called upon the international Criminal Court to open an investigation into the occupation’s crimes during this military aggression, and reiterates its call upon the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfil their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war criames under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights).
May 16, 2021: Ameer Rami Abu Al-Auf, 9, was killed was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city.
His mother Raja’ was killed also killed, along with her children two other children, Mira, 12, in addition to Hala Mohammed Mo’een al-Qolaq, 13, and her sister, Yara, 10, Rola, 6, and Lana, 4, Riyad Hasan Shkontana, and Mohammed Ahmed Musbah Ikki, 40.
According to the Health Ministry, most of the bodies pulled out of the rubble are children, bringing the death toll to 37, among them 8 children and thirteen women. Fifty more people were injured, among these were many women and children.
Medical sources said that ambulance and civil defense teams are carrying out searches under the rubble until the time of this report and numbers may increase as search and rescue operations continue.
The missile strikes killed thirteen members of the al-Qulaq family, ranging in age from 1 to 85, as they huddled in their homes in terror while the Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the night. Local Palestinians have reported hearing as many as 150 Israeli bombs during the night.
One of the families wiped out by an Israeli missile Sunday morning was that of Riyad Hasan IshKinatna, who was pulled out of the rubble Sunday morning by rescue crews, barely alive, only to be told when he reached the hospital that his wife and five children were all killed in the Israeli attack.
Also killed in the barrage of airstrikes on al-Wihda Street was Dr. Mo’in Ahmad al-Aloul, a neurologist and brain specialist.
The Health Ministry in Gaza have identified the confirmed names of slain Palestinians as:
1. Abdul Hamid Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 22 years old
2. Amin Mohammad Al-Qulaq, 85 years old
3. Mohammad Awni Al-Qulaq, 17 years old
4. Ayat Ibrahim Al-Qulaq, 19 years old
5. Ahmed Shukri Al-Qulaq, 17 years old
6. Reham Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 30 years old
7. Fawaz Shukri Al-Qulaq, 55 years old
8. Rawan Alaa Abu Al-Awf, 19 years old
9. Dima Rami Al-Franji, 16 years old
10. Dr. Mo’in Ahmad Al-Aloul, 66 years old
11. Luay Mohammad Oudeh, 54 years old
12. Hazem Adel Al-Qama, 48 years old
13. Dr. Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 50 years old
14. Amal Jamil Al-Qulaq, 34 years old
15. Sameh Fawaz Al-Qulaq, 28 years old
16. Saadia Youssef Al-Qulaq, 28 years old
17. Izzat Moeen Al-Qulaq, 44 years old
18. Adham Ezzat Al-Qulaq, 3 years old
19. Qusay Sameh Al-Qulaq, 1 year old.
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said that medical and Civil Defense crews pulled out thirteen dead bodies, including three women and seven children, from under the rubble of their houses on al-Wehda Street, raising the number of deaths to forty-three, most of them were children and women.
It said that slain Palestinians has been identified as Subhiya Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 73, Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qolaq, 90, Tawfiq Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 80, and his wife, Majdiya Khalil Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 82, Raja’ Subhi Isma’el al-Ifranji Abu al-Ouf, 41, and 3 of her children, Mira Rami Riyad al-Ifranji, 12, Yazan, 13, Ameer, 9, and Hala Mohammed Mo’een al-Qolaq, 13, and her sister, Yara, 10, Rola, 6, and Lana, 4, Riyad Hasan Shkontana, and Mohammed Ahmed Musbah Ikki, 40.
The PCHR said, for the eighth consecutive day, the Israeli army continued the offensive on the Gaza Strip, in violation of the basic principles of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL): necessity, proportionality and distinction.
Tens of Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of intense airstrikes, along with artillery and gunboat shelling. The airstrikes targeted more houses and civilian facilities and intensified the destruction of roads and infrastructure, inflicting more casualties among Palestinian civilians and causing extensive damage to their properties.
It added that the Israeli army declared that the third phase of the military operation on the Gaza Strip has started and that fifty-four warplanes fired 110 missiles attacked thirty-five targets within 20 minutes, including fifteen kilometer-tunnels; according to IOF’s claims, while the facts on the ground indicate that the airstrikes targeted more houses, facilities, and streets.
The power outage crisis in the Gaza Strip aggravated as the electricity supply dropped to three to four hours a day that is inadequate for the vital facilities to provide services to the people of the Gaza Strip.
The Electricity Company stated that the components of the electricity distribution network sustained massive destruction as five main electric power transmission lines, which supply sixty megawatts, broke down since the beginning of the offensive while the rest lines break down from time to time and become out of service due to the airstrikes and destruction of many places.
The power plant warned that it would be forced to shut down this evening due to insufficient fuel supply. The Power Generating Company announced that “J4” electric power transmission line, which supplies Gaza City and passes through Street 8 and Street 10, sustained severe damage due to the intense airstrikes on the area. As a result, the electricity went off on vacant areas in the city.
The forced displacement of tens of thousands of residents from their houses in eastern Gaza Strip continued due to the violent artillery shelling as shelters were opened to receive them without so far providing adequate circumstances. Also, almost all aspects of daily life have been disrupted due to the non-stop airstrikes.
Further to PCHR’s press release published yesterday, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of airstrikes while the Israeli gunboats and artillery shelled various and indiscriminate targets across the Gaza Strip.
As a result, 23 Palestinians, including three women and seven children, while fifty-three others, including eight women and eighteen children, were injured.
Additionally, the airstrikes targeted twenty-one houses, several facilities, governmental headquarters, and infrastructure on a wide scale. Thus, the number of targeted houses has risen to 115, including multi-story buildings and several towers.
Moreover, the death toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive has risen to 204, including fifty-nine children and thirty-four women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 836, including 251 children and 184 women.
According to the daily update by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the total number of injuries has risen to 1300, including fifty serious injuries.
These large numbers of injuries have increased the burden on medical crews and the already exhausted healthcare system due to the Israeli-imposed closure and the outbreak of coronavirus in addition to the negative impact of power outage on the operation of laboratories, blood banks and surgeries, especially considering the growing number of injuries.
Also, during these days, Gaza hospitals rely on generators due to long hours of power outage, rendering hospitals in urgent need of constant supply of fuel.
May 16, 2021: Rola Mohammad Mo’een -al-Qolaq, 6, was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, Gaza city.
The missile strikes killed thirteen members of the al-Qulaq family, ranging in age from 1 to 85, as they huddled in their homes in terror while the Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the night. Local Palestinians have reported hearing as many as 150 Israeli bombs during the night.
One of the families wiped out by an Israeli missile Sunday morning was that of Riyad Hasan IshKinatna, who was pulled out of the rubble Sunday morning by rescue crews, barely alive, only to be told when he reached the hospital that his wife and five children were all killed in the Israeli attack.
The Health Ministry in Gaza have identified the confirmed names of slain Palestinians as:
1. Abdul Hamid Fawaz Al-Qolaq, 22 years old
2. Amin Mohammad Al-Qolaq, 85 years old
3. Mohammad Mo’een Al-Qolaq, 34 years old
4. Ayat Ibrahim Al-Qolaq, 19 years old
5. Ahmed Shukri Al-Qolaq, 17 years old
6. Reham Fawaz Al-Qolaq, 30 years old
7. Fawaz Shukri Al-Qolaq, 55 years old
8. Rawan Alaa Abu Al-Awf, 19 years old
9. Dima Rami Al-Franji, 16 years old
10. Dr. Mo’in Ahmad Al-Aloul, 66 years old
11. Luay Mohammad Oudeh, 54 years old
12. Hazem Adel Al-Qama, 48 years old
13. Dr. Ayman Abu Al-Auf, 50 years old
14. Amal Jamil Al-Qolaq, 34 years old
15. Sameh Fawaz Al-Qolaq, 28 years old
16. Saadia Youssef Al-Qolaq, 28 years old
17. Izzat Moeen Al-Qolaq, 44 years old
18. Adam Ezzat Al-Qolaq, 3 years old
19. Qusay Sameh Al-Qolaq, 1 year old.
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said that medical and Civil Defense crews pulled out thirteen dead bodies, including three women and seven children, from under the rubble of their houses on al-Wehda Street, raising the number of deaths to forty-three, most of them were children and women.
It said that slain Palestinians has been identified as Subhiya Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 73, Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qolaq, 90, Tawfiq Isma’el Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 80, and his wife, Majdiya Khalil Hussain Abu al-Ouf, 82, Raja’ Subhi Isma’el al-Ifranji Abu al-Ouf, 41, and 3 of her children, Mira Rami Riyad al-Ifranji, 12, Yazan, 13, Ameer, 9, and Hala Mohammed Mo’een al-Qolaq, 13, and her sister, Yara, 10, Rola, 6, and Lana, 4, Riyad Hasan Shkontana, and Mohammed Ahmed Musbah Ikki, 40.
The PCHR said, for the eighth consecutive day, the Israeli army continued the offensive on the Gaza Strip, in violation of the basic principles of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL): necessity, proportionality and distinction.
Tens of Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of intense airstrikes, along with artillery and gunboat shelling. The airstrikes targeted more houses and civilian facilities and intensified the destruction of roads and infrastructure, inflicting more casualties among Palestinian civilians and causing extensive damage to their properties.
It added that the Israeli army declared that the third phase of the military operation on the Gaza Strip has started and that fifty-four warplanes fired 110 missiles attacked thirty-five targets within 20 minutes, including fifteen kilometer-tunnels; according to IOF’s claims, while the facts on the ground indicate that the airstrikes targeted more houses, facilities, and streets.
The power outage crisis in the Gaza Strip aggravated as the electricity supply dropped to three to four hours a day that is inadequate for the vital facilities to provide services to the people of the Gaza Strip.
The Electricity Company stated that the components of the electricity distribution network sustained massive destruction as five main electric power transmission lines, which supply sixty megawatts, broke down since the beginning of the offensive while the rest lines break down from time to time and become out of service due to the airstrikes and destruction of many places.
The power plant warned that it would be forced to shut down this evening due to insufficient fuel supply. The Power Generating Company announced that “J4” electric power transmission line, which supplies Gaza City and passes through Street 8 and Street 10, sustained severe damage due to the intense airstrikes on the area. As a result, the electricity went off on vacant areas in the city.
The forced displacement of tens of thousands of residents from their houses in eastern Gaza Strip continued due to the violent artillery shelling as shelters were opened to receive them without so far providing adequate circumstances. Also, almost all aspects of daily life have been disrupted due to the non-stop airstrikes.
Further to PCHR’s press release published yesterday, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of airstrikes while the Israeli gunboats and artillery shelled various and indiscriminate targets across the Gaza Strip.
As a result, 23 Palestinians, including three women and seven children, while fifty-three others, including eight women and eighteen children, were injured.
Additionally, the airstrikes targeted twenty-one houses, several facilities, governmental headquarters, and infrastructure on a wide scale. Thus, the number of targeted houses has risen to 115, including multi-story buildings and several towers.
Moreover, the death toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive has risen to 204, including fifty-nine children and thirty-four women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 836, including 251 children and 184 women.
According to the daily update by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the total number of injuries has risen to 1300, including fifty serious injuries.
These large numbers of injuries have increased the burden on medical crews and the already exhausted healthcare system due to the Israeli-imposed closure and the outbreak of coronavirus in addition to the negative impact of power outage on the operation of laboratories, blood banks and surgeries, especially considering the growing number of injuries.
Also, during these days, Gaza hospitals rely on generators due to long hours of power outage, rendering hospitals in urgent need of constant supply of fuel.
May 19, 2021: Dima Sa’d ‘Ali ‘Asaliyia, 10, was killed by Israeli missiles fires by the army at her family’s home in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
May 19, 2021: Nagham Eyad Salha, 2, was killed by Israeli missiles in her home in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip, along with her wheelchair bound father, Eyad Abdul-Fattah Salha, 33, and her 7 months pregnant mother, Amani Yousef Mohawesh, 33.
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In addition, the Al-Jazeera news agency has reported that the Israeli army fired, on Tuesday afternoon, several missiles and shells targeting many areas in the eastern, and northeastern parts of the Gaza Strip.
May 18, 2021: Islam Wael Burnat, 15, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with a live round in the head, after the army invaded Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked nonviolent protesters, many Palestinians were also injured.
May 17, 2021: Obeida Akram Jawabra, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers who shot him with live ammunition in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
May 17, 2021: Yousef Rafiq al-Baz, 13, was killed by an Israeli missile in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip.
May 17, 2021: Rafif Ziad Abu Dayer, 11, was killed by Israeli missiles that struck her home in the Shawwa building in Gaza city.
Medical sources said another Palestinian, identified as Yahia Mansour Ghaben, died from serious wounds he suffered, two days ago, during the extensive Israeli bombing of Beit Lahia.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the soldiers bombarded a home for the al-Masri family, wounding at least five Palestinians, including four children, in addition to causing a severe injury to one Palestinian in Wadi as-Salqa area, south of Deir al-Balah.
May 16, 2021: Dima Rami (al-Efranji) Abu Al-Auf, 16, was killed by Israeli missiles that struck a residential tower in the al-Wihda Street in Gaza city.
May 16, 2021: Ameer Rami Abu Al-Auf, 9, was killed was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city.
May 16, 2021: Rola Mohammad Mo’een -al-Qolaq, 6, was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, Gaza city.