On Saturday, October 19, 2024, the government media office in Gaza announced the killing of 33 Palestinian civilians, including 21 women, and the injury of 85 others, including serious injuries, in a new massacre committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
According to the government office, the IOF bombed several homes of Al-Hawajri, Nassar, and Abu Al-Aish families, in Tel Al-Zaatar area in Jabala, claiming the lives of 33 people, including 21 women, while many other dead are still under the rubble.
The government media office stated that this massacre was fully backed by the US administration and some European countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
It emphasised that “this new crime took place while the health system is collapsed in the northern Gaza Strip governorate, where about 400,000 people live,” adding that “the occupation threatened the hospitals and ordered its evacuation in order to achieve the greatest possible amount of killing and genocides. The occupation also prevents fuel from reaching these hospitals, and it has cut off communication means and the Internet in the area, resulting in a real catastrophe.”
The office condemned “the moral failure of the countries of the world silently watches the genocide against our Palestinian people, especially in Jabalia being committed by the Israeli occupation,” and it denounced “in the strongest terms the new massacre and the ongoing Israeli war of extermination and ethnic cleansing against civilians, children and women.”
For the 15th consecutive day, the IOF continues its war of extermination and starvation in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalia and its camp, where it imposes a stifling siege and a starvation policy, while it continues bombing and demolishing homes over the heads of its residents.
Since October 7th, the IOF has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands dead and wounded, and causing a major health and environmental disaster, due to the destruction of vital facilities and the overflow of sewage in large areas.
