GAZA: Israeli aerial and artillery bombardment Saturday evening targeted several areas in the war-torn Gaza Strip, killing at least eight Palestinian civilians and injuring dozens, according to local sources.
They said that first-aid and Civil Defense crews extricated the bodies of three civilians following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Khribet al-Adas area, north Rafah, in the southern Strip.
They added that the crews also recovered the body of another civilian victim following an Israeli army drone airstrike that targeted the Ariba area, north of Rafah.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation artillery shelled the vicinity of al-Awawda Circle at Block 6 in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Strip, killing a civilian and injuring others.
This came as Israeli fighter jets targeted a residential building belonging to the Abu Ras family in the vicinity of the Ash-Sham’a mosque in the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, killing three civilians, including two children, and injuring others.
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li artillery also pounded the vicinity the Ein Jalout School in the Zaytoun neighborhood, at a time when Israeli warplanes targeted the Faluja locality, west of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Strip, and conducted a series of airstrikes on the Jabalia and Beit Lahya towns in the northern Strip.
According to medical sources, first-aid and emergency crews transported nine casualties to the Indonesian Hospital after they were targeted by an Israeli army drone at the Abu Sharkh Circle in the northern Strip. Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 41,825 Palestinians and injuring over 96,794 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under t
he rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA