The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that during the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres in the stricken Gaza Strip, killing 78 martyrs and injuring 104.
The ministry explained in a statement today that the occupation continues its aggression for the 154th day on the Strip in various forms, including field executions, massacres, genocide and demolition of residential neighborhoods, resulting in an increase in the number of victims of the ongoing aggression since the seventh of last October to 30,878 martyrs and 72,402 wounded, pointing out that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as the occupation prevents the access of ambulance crews and civil defense to them.
The occupation Air Force launched raids on two houses in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing 5 Palestinians, including two children from the one family, injuring 22 others, mostly women and children, and its artillery fired several shells towards the tents of the displaced in the AL-Mawasi area of the city, injuring 9.
Also in Khan Younis, south of the Strip, occupation aircraft shelled two houses in the town of Al-Qarara. A young man was also martyred and others were injured after the bombing of a civilian vehicle south of the town, while shelling of a house in the vicinity of the European Hospital injured five.
In the middle of the Strip, 9 Palestinians were killed after an occupation airstrike on a house in Deir al-Balah, while tanks fired several shells into the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, injuring 7 Palestinians.
In Gaza City, north of the Strip, occupation aircraft bombed two houses in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, another house in the Tall al-Hawa neighborhood and a fourth in the Sabra neighborhood, killing four and wounding 15 others. Four were shot by occupying forces near the city’s Nablusi square. Intensive raids were also carried out on various areas of the city’s north, with the Israeli forces blowing up a residential square in it.
In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, occupation aircraft shelled two houses in the camp, killing a Palestinian man and injuring 3 others, while its artillery shelled the Kalibu hill area and several areas of Beit Lahia.
Amal Farhat