Some 25 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the past 12 hours by Israeli airstrikes, which were particularly deadly in the refugee camps in the centre of the enclave of Nuseirat and Bureij and in the capital, Gaza City, Palestinian media reported on Saturday.
“Civil defence and medical teams recovered five bodies from the bombing of the Al Sharani family home at dawn today in Nuseirat camp,” reads one of the latest communiqués from the Gaza emergency services.
The Palestinian news agency identified the bodies as those of Yassin Al Sharah, his wife and his children.
Also in Nuseirat, the Israeli air force attacked a residence near the Murad Al Talaa mosque, leaving an as yet undetermined number of dead and wounded.
Shortly followingwards, the Civil Defence announced that it had recovered another body from the wreckage of another airstrike once morest the Al Batran home in the Bureij refugee camp, adding to the three that Palestinian media had previously reported.
“The Alexandroni Brigade combat team continues to fight in the central Gaza Strip,” the armed forces announced in a statement this morning, saying they had killed “several terrorists” in airstrikes.
Gaza City, the most affected
The other area hit hardest tonight was the capital, Gaza City (north), where the Israeli army has been carrying out intense ground incursions and air strikes on the city for weeks, ordering its total evacuation on July 10.
The military is searching the capital for Islamist militants who regrouped in northern Gaza when the army focused its operations on the south, and are returning to fighting in some neighborhoods that they had previously declared “neutralized.”
In the northwestern Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of the city, a shell hit the home of the Ayyad family, leaving six people dead and at least 10 injured, Palestinian media reported, describing the attack as a “massacre.”
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also recovered six bodies in the western district of Tal al-Hawa.
Further north, in the Yabalia refugee camp, another Israeli shell hit the home of the Abu Jasser family, killing four more. Their bodies were taken to Kamal Adwan hospital.
In the south, the operations that the army began on May 6 in Rafah continue, while the city of Khan Yunis suffers daily air strikes.
“The rescue team of Brigade 401 is operating once morest terrorist infrastructures and militants of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood,” the army said in a statement.
This military information also includes the operations of the 162nd Division in the city, bordering Egypt, in which they “eliminated” several militiamen, without specifying the number.
“Ambulance crews have transferred a dead man who was hit by an Israeli occupation drone while riding a bicycle” in Khan Yunis, Wafa reported, adding that his body was taken to Nasser Hospital.
39,000 dead from Israeli fire, with 37 in the last day
At least 37 people have been killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours by Israeli strikes, while 54 others have been injured, according to the latest bulletin from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, bringing the death toll since the start of the war to 38,919, most of them women and children.
In addition, there are 89,622 injured, not counting the approximately 10,000 bodies that remain in the rubble, with no access for ambulances or rescue teams.
“The number of journalists killed has risen to 161,” the government of the devastated enclave denounced following recording the loss of Mohamed Abu Jasser, who died in an Israeli bombing last night once morest his house in the town of Yabalia, in the north of the Strip.
Jerusalem / EFE
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2024-07-20 18:20:54
