By Nadine Osman
(The Muslim News), London: Dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured in a series of assaults launched by Israeli jets on various areas in Gaza on Thursday morning.
According to the Palestine News & Info Agency (WAFA), an Israeli bombing on Deir al-Balah and the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip killed and injured multiple Palestinians.
Israel attacked a civilian car transporting the wounded from Deir al-Balah, killing everyone inside.
At least seven Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli jets also launched several raids on the city centre of Khan Yunis, and on farmland north of the city of Rafah, south of the Strip, killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinians, the majority of whom were children and women.
Several Palestinians were killed, and others were injured, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, at least seven Palestinians were killed, and others were injured when the Israeli airforce bombed a house in the camp, while others were injured when Israel bombed a house in the Zawaida region of the central Gaza Strip.
Wednesday evening, the Israel occupation forces carried out a massacre near Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, killing about 30 civilians.
The Israeli ariforce also conducted further strikes on the Khan Yunis city centre and agricultural land north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip’s south.
During the last 24 hours, Israel conducted 16 atrocities against entire families, murdering 195 and wounding 325 people, according to health officials.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners delivered fuel and other essential supplies to two hospitals in northern and southern Gaza this week, the UN agency said Wednesday in a statement.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to “take urgent steps to alleviate the grave peril facing the population of Gaza and jeopardizing the ability of humanitarian workers to help people with terrible injuries, acute hunger, and at severe risk of disease.” ,” according to the statement.
The latest WHO assessments show that Gaza currently has 13 partially functioning hospitals and two minimally functioning ones, while 21 are not functioning at all, it added.
According to Gaza Ministry of Health, 21,320 Palestinians have been killed, including 8,800 children, 6,302 women, 55.603 have been injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombing by Israeli Defence Force in Gaza since October 7.
1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel, according to Israeli authorities. Israelis say 129 Israelis are still held captive by Hamas.
[Photo: Injured Palestinian girl holds hand of female relative both injured by Israeli bombing receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 28,12,23. Ph Belal Khaled /AA]
