Agencies: More than 100 Palestinians were killed in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza and a similar number of people remain under the rubble, at least 20 others wounded, according to Wafa news agency.
Israeli warplanes also launched indiscriminate strikes on the northern areas of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, while heavy artillery shelling targeted all areas of the city, resulting in the death and injury of dozens of civilians.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said Sunday’s strikes hit a residential block belonging to the al-Barsh and Alwan families in the town of Jabalia.
In central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, while in Rafah in the south, an Israeli air attack on a house left at least four people dead.
According to the Health Ministry, 18,787 Palestinians have been killed, including 7.729 children and 5,153 women, and 50,897 injured by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing since October 7 in Gaza Strip. 1.9 million Palestinians have been internally displaced.
Meanwhile, in at least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack targeting the Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
The young men, with their ages ranging between 22 and 33, were killed in an Israeli attack on the refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm, Palestine’s official news agency Wafa reported.
Several people were injured in the attack amid arrests and destruction of infrastructure, it added.
In a separate attack, another Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds as a result of an Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
Medical sources at Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin announced on Sunday that he died due to injuries he sustained during an Israeli attack on the eastern neighborhood of Jenin during a raid by Israeli forces of the city on Dec. 12, which lasted for three days, the agency also reported.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that the Israeli forces are preventing ambulance and emergency crews from entering the Nour Shams camp to respond to the injured.
In a statement, the PRCS said: “An injured person was martyred in the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm as the occupation forces prevented PRCS ambulance crews from entering the camp to transfer the critically injured individual with a head injury despite coordination through the International Committee of the Red Cross.”
“In a separate incident, the occupation forces arrested a PRCS volunteer from the ambulance while heading to transport a medical case from the camp after obtaining coordination,” the aid organization added.
Tensions have been running high across the West Bank amid an Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Hamas on
At least 505 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank this year, the Health Ministry said Sunday.
A ministry statement said that 111 children were among the victims.
Last year, the Palestinian death toll from Israeli army fire reached 224 people, according to Palestinian figures.
The Health Ministry said 297 Palestinians lost their lives in the West Bank since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7.
At least 296 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank since October 7, in addition to more than 3,430 others injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
[Photo: Injured Palestinian children being treated at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli attacks in Deir al Balah, Gaza on 17 12 23. Photojournalist Ashraf Amra/ AA]
