12 additional people are killed by Israeli airstrikes that hit a UN school and homes in Gaza
The Israeli attacks, according to the Palestinian telecom companies, also resulted in another communications blackout in Gaza. The communications office of the besieged enclave claimed that the blackout was making rescue operations much more difficult.
Claim by Hani Mahmoud Al Jazeera
The claim by Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera that there was heavy gunfire in Rafah’s eastern area where millions of evacuated Gazaans. had been told repeatedly to relocate for “safety” which added to the already dire situation.
As per the latest casualty figures at least 18,787 people have been killed in Gaz whereas a staggering 50,897 are injured. Furthermore, Israeli violence has claimed the lives of 289 Palestinians residing in Occupied West Bank, and injured 3,365.
On December 15, 2023, Palestinian ladies go across the Children’s graveyard at the Jenin refugee camp in the early morning. Since the attacks in southern Israel on October 7, there has been an increase in violence in the West Bank, which is governed by the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Being reduced from 1,400, the overall number of Israelis killed in the October 7 Hamas attack is now 1,200. It is estimated that 8,730 Israelis have been injured. The Israeli army claims that since it began its retaliatory operation in the wake of the October 7 incident, at least 448 of its troops have died.
Witnesses claimed to have seen fierce combat between Israeli soldiers and Hamas throughout Gaza, according to Reuters on Friday. This implies that Israel’s ground invasion was running into increased resistance as the US pressured its ally to change a course of action that had claimed a high toll on civilian lives.
There was violence in; Sheijaia, Sheikh Radwan, Zeitoun, Tuffah, and Beit Hanoun in north Gaza, east of Maghazi in central Gaza.
Hospitals in Deir al-Balah Khan Younis
Hospitals in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah reported a new influx of dead and wounded early on Friday including two children. Four people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Rafah and Israeli tanks were shelling targets just east of the city near the Egyptian border, medics and witnesses said.
The shrouded bodies of people killed in Israeli bombardment on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. They are laid out for identification by relatives in front of the morgue. of the Nasser hospital on December 15, 2023, as battles continued between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
In a Friday update, the Israeli military announced that its forces had carried out a “targeted raid” on militant infrastructure in Khan Younis and damaged a Hamas command and control center in Gaza City’s hotly contested Sheijaia sector.
Many locals and militant sources contacted by Reuters verified the intense fighting, which begged the issue of whether Israel’s two-month aerial and ground assault on Gaza had seriously damaged Hamas, which it has promised to destroy.
“We could hear gunshots and explosions echoing from all directions. The Gaza Strip turned into a ball of fire overnight,” Ahmed, 45, an electrician, told Reuters as he was speaking from a bunker in the middle of the heavily populated coastal strip.
“They can blow up houses and highways, slaughter civilians with blind tank shelling, or from the air. They lose when the resistance confronts them head-on. After what they have done to our Gaza, we had nothing left to lose,” he declared.
On December 15, 2023, men stand in front of the Nasser Hospital mortuary, grieving over the body of a person killed in Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, as fighting between Israel and Hamas continues.
