Zionist occupation targets houses in the Gaza Strip, killing 17 Palestinians 

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, JUN18, (ST)- At least 17 civilians were martyred and others were injured today in Israeli airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that ambulance crews recovered the bodies of 8 people   who had died as a result of targeting a home belonging to al-Rai family.

Ambulance and civil crews also recovered the bodies of 5 others following an Israeli airstrike targeting commercial shops belonging to  al-Madhoun family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation warplanes targeted a house belonging to Harb family in the Bureij camp, resulting in the martyrdom of several civilians and causing multiple causalities.

The occupation forces also continued their incursion into several areas in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, amid heavy gunfire and artillery shelling.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation’s fighter jets carried out a series of raids on the all-Mughraqa area and the vicinity of the Gaza Valley area, north of the Nuseirat camp, and the eastern area of ​​the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation warplanes also launched intense airstrikes targeting agricultural land in the vicinity of the Al-Mufti area, north of Nuseirat, and another on the Tal Al-Hawa and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods in Gaza City.

The number of civilians, who have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation’s aggression on October 7, 2023, hit 37,347.

While, the number of people injured, mostly children and women, has also reached 85,372.

Source: WAFA

Edited by: Basma Qaddour