Scores of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed and wounded since dawn on Saturday in the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip by air, land and sea.
Israeli warplanes bombed two houses in the northern Gaza Strip killing at least 14 people and wounding others.
Scores of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured as a result of the bombing of a house in Jabaliya, with a large number of people still trapped under the rubble.
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A young man, identified as Mahmoud Anwar Saleh, was killed in the Tal al-Zaatar area, north of Gaza, after an Israeli sniper shot him inside his house.
Meanwhile, Israeli warships fired heavy machine guns in the Rafah Sea, south of the Gaza Strip.
The northern areas of the Gaza Strip, the eastern areas of Khan Yunis Governorate, the Mahatta area, the town of Bani Suhaila, and Sheikh Nasser are currently witnessing intense artillery shelling.
Many civilians were injured as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing two homes belonging to the Al-Qudra and Siam families in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of the city of Khan Yunis.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 12 babies are trapped within incubators at the Kamal Aswan Hospital, which has been besieged by the Israeli occupation army and has no access to food or water.
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Warplanes also targeted the vicinity of the UNRWA al-Mazraa School in Deir al-Balah and a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at a house in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, while the occupation army continued its bombing of al-Shuja’iya, al-Tuffah, and al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City.
Warplanes also attacked neighborhoods in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 18,800 Palestinians have been killed and more than 51,000 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
(PC, WAFA)
