Fri. Sep 20th, 2024


GAZA: Overnight and into the early hours of this morning, a number of civilians were killed and injured as Israeli airstrikes and artillery targeted various areas across the Gaza Strip.

According to our correspondent, rescue teams retrieved the bodies of four individuals and treated several injuries after Israeli forces targeted a house belonging to the Haji family near the Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City. The casualties were transported to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.

In another attack, one person was killed and four others were injured when Israeli airstrikes hit a home belonging to the Abu Yousef family in the Abu Eskandar area of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. The injured were rushed to Indonesia Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia.

Simultaneously, five individuals sustained injuries in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to Shurrab family in the Salaam neighborhood, south of Khan Younis. The five wounded were subsequently transported to Nasser Hospital in the city for medical
treatment.

In the meantime, at least one Palestinian was killed and four injured after Israeli forces bombed a residence belonging to the Tuman family in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, with the body taken to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp.

Yesterday, Israeli forces committed a massacre in Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, resulting in the killing of 90 civilians, half of whom were children and women, and injuring 300 others.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in 38,443 documented Palestinian fatalities, predominantly women and children, and 88,481 injuries, with thousands still trapped under rubble.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA