The Israeli Aggression on Gaza Strip on its 167th day… dozens of martyrs and wounded

Occupied Al-Quds –(ST)-Thursday morning, dozens of Palestinians, most of them children and women, were martyred and injured as a result of the continuation of the Israeli aggression by land, air and sea against the stricken Gaza Strip for the 167th day.

Wafa Agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces continued for the fourth day to storm into the Al-Rimal neighborhood and the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, and besiege those inside the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. The occupation forces fired missiles and artillery shells on this area which led to the martyrdom of dozens of Palestinians and the injury of others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble, and the occupation aircraft opened fire on the houses surrounding the complex.

The occupation forces blew up the specialized surgical building in the complex, completely cutting off communication with all medical teams inside the surgical building, and it threatening everyone inside the surgical building to evacuate it immediately, as the families there appealed to international institutions and the Red Cross to go to the complex to rescue them.

The occupation forces committed a horrific crime against the displaced people in the complex, resulting in the martyrdom of 80 Palestinians, including children, and the arrest of about 300 others, in addition to attacking medical staff and forcing hundreds to leave. 50 others were martyred in the complex area during the past hours.

Dozens of Palestinians were also martyred and wounded in the occupation artillery shelling of several houses on Al-Rashid Street and its surroundings in the Al-Mina area, west of Gaza City, at a time when the occupation forces aircraft launched a raid on a house in Al-Shati refugee camp, which led to a number of martyrs and wounded, while heavy artillery shelling continues on the western neighborhoods of the city, especially in Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin, coinciding with the launch of a series of other raids on the vicinity of the Al-Amal Hotel and the Habbush area.

As for the central Gaza Strip, nine Palestinians were martyred and others were injured, most of them children while they were sleeping, as a result of the occupation aircraft’s bombing at dawn on a residential square in the new camp, west of the Nuseirat camp, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble, and others were martyred in a similar bombing on a house in the Al-Maghazi camp, at a time when aircraft bombed a house next to the Jaffa Mosque in the city of Deir al-Balah, resulting in the death and injury of dozens.

In the south of Gaza Strip, the occupation bombed a car in the middle of the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, causing the martyrdom of nine and wounding others. The occupation vehicles also opened fire towards the Al-Fukhari area, east of Khan Yunis, while its artillery bombed the vicinity of the town of Al-Qarara, south of the Gaza Strip.

Hanan Shamout