GAZA: Dozens of innocent Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed or injured this evening in a series of Israeli aerial or artillery attacks targeting various areas of the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.
In the city of Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, approximately nine Palestinians were killed and several others wounded following the Israeli bombardment of homes belonging to the Khattab and Al-Attar families.
Simultaneously, at least one person was killed and dozens were injured, some critically, when Israeli occupation forces opened machine gunfire on civilians awaiting for aid trucks near the Al-Nabulsi and Al-Kuwait roundabouts in the west and south of Gaza City. The victims were subsequently transported to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Meantime, at least one civilian was killed and three others injured as a result of the Israeli military’s bombardment of a home belonging to the Al-Attaout family in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
In Khan Yunis, so
uthern Gaza, an Israeli bombardment targeting a house owned by the Abu Rezq family near the European Gaza Hospital resulted in five injuries.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far resulted in 30,717 fatalities, most of whom are children and women, with 72,156 documented injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.
This toll remains provisional as thousands of victims are feared dead under rubble or left in the streets, with Israeli forces hindering access for ambulance and civil defense crews.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA