On the 529th day since the start of the genocide, after 58 days of a ceasefire period where Israel routinely violated the terms on a daily basis, Israel launched a surprise brutal large scale night bombardment around 2 am, targeting the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip.
The carpet bombing resulted in the wiping out of multiple families, with most of the victims reaching hospitals being babies, children, and women who were killed in their sleep.
The Israeli bombing resulted in nearly one thousand casualties. Among the 412 who were murdered, over 70% were children, women and elderly. Precisely, them at least 174 children, 89 women, and 32 elderly
All hospitals that remained somewhat functioning through the genocide across the Gaza Strip were flooded with mass casualties amid a lack of necessary supplies that Israel continued denying entry during the ceasefire, keeping the healthcare system at a bare minimum.
Dozens of victims remain buried under the rubble as ambulances and Civil Defense crews were stretched thin.
According to Civil Defense spokesman Maj. Mahmoud Basal, Israel carried over a hundred strikes overnight.
The carpet bombing targeted about 80 civil and government infrastructure targets. The following is a non-exhaustive list of dozens of locations targeted during the first hours of the large-scale massacre:
- the vicinity of Al-Tabi'in Sharia School, Gaza City
- the vicinity of Al-Rafii School, North Gaza
- Three raids in Zaytoun neighborhood, Gaza City
- House in Al-Karama area near Omar Mosque, Khan Younis
- House in the center of Deir al-Balah city
- Houses of Al-Daalis and Abu Saif families, Nuseirat, central Gaza
- Ghaboun family house, Al Janina neighborhood, Rafah
- Several mosques, schools/shelters, displacement tents
- Residential building in the center of Khan Younis city
- tent in Mawasi Khan Younis, by Helicopter airstrike
- House in Beit Hanoun, North Gaza
- Gunfire on the northern borders of Beit Lahia, North Gaza
- Several houses bombed in Beit Lahia, North Gaza
- Al-Ahrar building, Shati RC, Gaza City
- Al-Batran family house strike, Bureij, central Gaza
- Airstrike on Al-Senaa Steert, Gaza City
- Several houses bombed in Deir al Balah (Dhaher, Mosmah, Muzayed families)
- Jarghoun family massacred at home, Rafah. 17 killed
- Apartment in Al-Andalusiya residence, west of Gaza City
- House of Dr. Ayman Abu Tayr, Director of the Nutrition Department at Nasser Medical Complex, in Abasan al-Kabira
- Artillery shelling west of Rafah
- Al-Jamasi family house, Gaza City
- Barhoum family massacred in their tent west of Khan Younis. 17 killed
- Eid family house, Bureij Block 3
- 15 killed in strike on house of Dr. Majida Abu Akr, Rafah
- School in Beit Hanoun
- Tent near Othman mosque in Mawasi Khan Younis
- Al-Fadila school west of Rafah
- Apartment opposite police station in Jabalia
- Hamdan family home, Beit Hanoun
- vicinity of Tawba mosque, Al-Zohour neighborhood, Rafah
- House in Al-Maghazi, central Gaza
Among the victims were family members of journalists:
- 27 family members of Al-Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qriqea, killed in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
- 5 family members of journalist Ahmad Hamdan killed in Beit Hanoun at home
- 7 family members of journalist Hassan Slayeh killed in Khan Younis
Names of senior Gaza and municipal government officials killed:
- Issam Al-Daalis (Abu Muad), Chairman of the Government Work Monitoring Committee.
- Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Abu Watfa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior
- Maj. Gen. Bahjat Abu Sultan (Abu Al-Baraa), head of the Interior Security Service
- Ahmad Al-Hitta (Abu Omar), Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice
- Mohammad Al-Jamasi (Abu Ubaida), head of the Emergency Committee
Names of the martyrs brought to Al-Awda Hospital (Nuseirat):
- Mohammad Ahmed Abu Marshoud
- Hala Moad Al-Daalis
- Oyoun Sami Al-Daalis
- Ahmed Mohammad Abu Marshoud
- Tahani Muhammad Ahmad Abu Marshoud
- Radina Younis Abu Batihan "Sayida"
- a 7 months pregnant mother and her embryo
Names of the martyrs from Dr. Abu Tayr's family:
- Shawqiyya Muhammad Ali Abu Tayr
- Muhammad Suleiman Abu Tayr
- Asmaa Abd Abu Tayr
- Hoda Mohammad Suleiman Abu Tayr
- Amira Mohammad Abu Tayr
- Fulla Abdulkarim Asfour (Abu Tayr)
- Anas Ayman Abu Tayr
- Jana Ayman Abu Tayr
- Leen Ayman Abu Tayr
Four family members missing under the rubble
Names of the martyrs from the Abu Akr family:
- Khaled Abu Riash Abu Muhammad
- Dr. Majida Abu Akr
- Kholoud Khaled Abu Riyash and her children
- Osama Abu Marzouq
- Siham Abu Marzouq
- Siham's daughter
- Siham's 3-day-old baby girl
- Siham's daughter Dina Osama Abu Marzouq
- Siham's son, Mohammad Osama Abu Marzouq
- Aida Yaqoub Shaker Ghaboun
- Aida's son Mustafa
Names of the martyrs from the Jarghoun family:
- Eid Mansour Ali Jarghoun
- Mohammad Eid Jarghoun
- Jihad Eid Jarghoun
- Fidaa Eid Ali Jarghoun
- Zainab Ziad Jarghoun
- Fayrouz Jihad Jarghoun
- Ayloul Jihad Jarghoun
- Majdoulin Abu Luli (Jarghoun)
- Maryam Mohammad Jarghoun
- Bisan Mohammad Jarghoun
- Layan Mohammad Jarghoun
- Manar Suleiman Ali Jarghoun (Rafah municipality employee)
- Firas Manar Suleiman Jarghoun
- Shadi Manar Suleiman Jarghoun
- Mohammad Manar Suleiman Jarghoun
- Karam Manar Suleiman Jarghoun
- Sahar Manar Suleiman Jarghoun
Names of the martyrs from the Abu Saif family:
- Naji Maher Abu Saif
- Shaimaa Abu Saif (Wasshah, Naji's wife)
- Ghassan Maher Abu Saif
- Sara Abu Saif (Sabbah, Ghassan's wife)
- Saif Ghassan Maher Abu Saif (Ghassan and Sara's son)
- Dima Maher Abu Saif
Names of the martyrs from the Qriqea family:
- Ahmad Hamdan Qriqea "Abu Yahya"
- Hamdan Ahmad Qriqea
- Maram Ahmad Qriqea (child)
- Aisha Ahmad Qriqea
- Aya Ahmad Qriqea (Mosbah)
- Refaat Mosbah (Ayas' husband)
- Aya and Refaat's 5 children
- Dirgham Bassam Qriqea
- Aya Al-Qadra (Dirgham's wife)
- Montaser Bassam Qriqea
- Khadija Bassam Qriqea (Al-Deeb)
- Khadija's 3 children
- Kholoud Bassam Qriqea (Hamid)
- Khloud's 3 children
- Rida Obeid Qriqea
- Rida's son
- Yousuf Karim Qriqea
- Noor Yousuf Qriqea
- Kareem Qriqea "Aub Sufyan" (journalist Mohammed's brother, succumbed to injuries on march 22)
Names of the martyrs from the Barhoum family:
- Khamis Jumua Barhoum "Abu Ubaida"
- Hanaa Ali Barhoum (Khamis's wife)
- Ubaida Khamis Barhoum (son)
- Aya Khamis Barhoum(daughter)
- Layan Khamis Barhoum(daughter)
- Habiba Khamis Barhoum(daughter)
- Muhammad Khamis Barhoum(son)
- Ali Khamis Barhoum (son)
- Salama Jumua Barhoum "Abu Karim"
- Soha Ali Barhoum (Salama's wife)
- Karim Salama Barhoum (son)
- Aalaa Salama Barhoum (daughter)
- Raghad Salama Barhoum (daughter)
- Shahd Salama Barhoum (daughter)
- Abdurahman Salama Barhoum (son)
- Butayna Barhoum Abu Omar
- Muhammad Sami Barhoum
Names of the martyrs from the Slayeh family:
- Ayman Salah Khalil Slayeh
- Muhammad Ayman Salah Slayeh
- Abdurahman Ayman Salah Slayeh
- Salma Ayman Salah Slayeh
- Dima Ayman Salah Slayeh
- Ola Mustafa Muhammad Slayeh
Other martyrs:
- Ghina Isa Muhammad Abu Ubaid
- Raed Muhammad Ghaboun
- Hussein Muhammad Zayd Abd al-Aal
- Sabreen Imad Yousuf Al-Arja
- Nidal Hamad
- Nidal Hamad's daughter
- Layan Abu al-Khair
- Lubna Bassam Ayesh Al-Najjar