GAZA: In a new massacre committed by the Israeli occupation, at least 24 civilians were killed and others were injured this evening in Israeli strikes on Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, Israeli warplanes shelled the house of the Abu Zeitar family in the Bishara neighborhood in Deir al-Balah, killing 24 civilians and wounding several others, mostly children and women. Rescue work to help those trapped under the rubble Is still ongoing.
Israeli aerial raids also bombed a house north of the Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Strip, injuring several civilians.
Several civilians were also targeted by an Israeli strike along the shore in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Strip, resulting in the injury of several people, some critically.
The occupation fighter jets and artillery also bombarded areas in the Khirbat al-Adas and Beit Hanoun areas in the north of the Strip.
Israeli jets also opened heavy fire on the town of al-Mughraqa town, in the central Strip.
The
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PPS) said the occupation forces targeted the vicinity of the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Strip, causing extensive damage to the hospital facilities.
According to PRCS, the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance teams carried out – for the fourth time – an evacuation mission from Nasser Hospital after it went out of service, in coordination with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
PRCS said its ambulances evacuated 18 wounded civilians, including two newborns whose mothers were killed in the Israeli shelling.
The number of civilians killed since the start of Israel’s aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has surged to 29,514. In addition, at least 69,616 people were wounded.
Casualty data in Gaza are incomplete due to the intensive Israeli aggression, the repeated and complete interruption of communication and internet services, lack of fuel and devastated infrastructure, which render it difficult to document figur
es.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA