A number of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed before dawn on Monday, in a series of Israeli raids and artillery shelling that targeted the cities of Gaza, Rafah, Khan Yunis, and the Jabalia and Bureij refugee camps.
According to local sources, over the past 24 hours at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. This level of killing has been a daily reality for Palestinians in Gaza for the past 227 days, as Israeli forces have bombarded nearly every section of the Gaza Strip, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee from one part of the Gaza Strip to another – multiple times – as they try to follow Israeli orders to escape being killed.
Correspondents with the Wafa news agency reported that 3 civilians were killed and at least 8 others were injured as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing a house in the vicinity of Al-Qadisiyah School in the Tal Al- Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, while the Brazil neighborhood in the center of the city witnessed similar air strikes.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that an Israeli bombing targeted a residential apartment in the Tal al- Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, leaving 3 killed and a number of injured.
The reporter said that several people were martyred and others were injured in the bombing of a house for the Al-Arouqi family in the Abu Iskandar area in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
Among those killed was the infant son of journalist Motasem A Dalloul, Abu Baker.
A number of civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted the vicinity of Sheikh Zakariya Mosque in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, while artillery shelling targeted the eastern areas of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.
Various areas in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Jabalia and Bureij camps witnessed a series of Israeli raids, resulting in the injury of a number of citizens.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said earlier that the Israeli bombing targeted a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, and its spokesman Mahmoud Basal added to Agence France-Presse that the Civil Defense teams in the Central Governorate were able to recover 31 martyrs and 20 wounded from a house belonging to the Hassan family that was targeted by the Israeli occupation forces. In Nuseirat camp.
In the north of the besieged and devastated Palestinian Strip, the Arab National Hospital (Al-Baptist) reported the death of three people in an Israeli raid on a school housing displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation army announced months ago the “dismantling of the military structure” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip, but last Friday it declared to the press agency that Hamas “was in complete control of Jabalia until our arrival a few days ago.”
In the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army announced the intensification of its operations in Rafah, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on carrying out a large ground attack that he considers necessary to eliminate the Hamas movement in its last major “strongholds.”
On May 7, the Israeli army took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, despite widespread international opposition to this.
About 800,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee Rafah, according to the United Nations, since the sixth of this month.
Medical sources had announced that the current death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 35,456, and injuries to 79,476, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on the 7th of last October.
The sources indicated that the occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 70 civilians and the injury of 110 others, during the past 24 hours.
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