Drone drops grenade while people are being displaced from Beit Lahia

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10568

Date

4 December, 2024

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"⬅️ شاهد..لحظة إلقاء طائرة كواد كابتر قنابل تجاه المواطنين أثناء النزوح من بيت لاهيا الى غرب مدينة غزة" - Source

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Archivist Notes: Day 425: North Gaza Invasion

Day 61 of Israel's third ground invasion of the North Gaza governorate.

Following a night-long concentrated assault on Beit Lahia schools, Israeli forces expelled displaced persons out of the shelters. About 20,000 people are estimated to have been forcibly displaced as schools typically shelter about 5,000 persons.

Yet, Israeli forces continued harming Palestinians complying with the forced displacement and abiding to the designated "safe passage" on Salah al-Din Street. Civilians and journalists reported and shared footage of Israeli forces shooting towards the displacement trail and sending drones to drop grenades over or near them.

Journalist Hossam Shabat shared his own testimony: "A short while ago, I was documenting the displacement of the people of Beit Lahia, when the occupation forces opened heavy fire on the displaced people. What I saw was similar to the horrors of the Day of Judgment. Children running in panic, mothers leaving everything they owned behind, and the elderly sitting on the roads while bullets whizzed over their heads. In the midst of all this, a little girl screamed looking for her injured sister, and children cried waiting for their fathers who were captured by the occupation army. A scene beyond description."


List of events harming civilians, infrastructure and living conditions:

Daytime

  • Dawn: massacre of the Jouda family in Beit Lahia. at least 5 killed: a father, his daughter and three sons

  • 6 am: Israeli forces detonate explosive vehicles in Beit Lahia

  • 10:30 am: Israeli drones demand dispalced persons to leave schools in Beit Lahia

  • 1 pm: Artillery shelling in Jabalia al-Balad

  • 1:30 pm: Israeli forces open fire on Salah al-Din Street, the road it designated for "safe passage" of people forcibly displaced out of North Gaza. (sources: 1 2. At the same time, at least one drone was filmed dropping a grenade on the crowded trail of displacement. Injuries reported

  • 4 pm: photojournalist Mohammad Awad, who works for Anadolu, was injured by drone gunfire while documenting the displacement from Beit Lahia

  • 4:45 pm: Journalist Wael Abu Zeina injured in the bombing of his home in Jabalia

  • 6 pm: Strike near Abu Hussein schools in Jabalia. One eprson killed

  • 6 pm: Women and children forcibly displaced are homeless without any shelter

  • 11 pm: Artillery shelling in Beit Lahia

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.