By Abdul Adil
(The Muslim News): At least 30 people were killed and 105 others were injured in Israeli indiscriminate bombings in Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry. This has increased the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, has now surged to 37,232, and 85,037 injured according to medical sources.
Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and wounded on Thursday by Israeli occupation forces as the brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip enters its 251st day.
WAFA correspondent reported hearing explosions and heavy gunfire from Israeli tanks in the western area of the city of Rafah, coinciding with Apache warplanes and occupation boats firing on the same area, which led to the blowing up of entire residential buildings.
He added that medical teams recovered the bodies of three slain people and a number of wounded, most of them children, as a result of targeting a house owned by Al-Louh family in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli artillery fired shells at Palestinian homes northwest of the Nuseirat camp and Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip.
Quadcopter military drones fired on citizens’ homes in Al-Shuja’iya and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods in Gaza City.
Israeli vehicles stationed in Netzarim axis fired rockets on the neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun, Al-Sabra, Tal Al-Hawa and Sheikh Ejlin in Gaza City, coinciding with the shooting.
The Israeli army’s vehicles continue breaking into the southeastern outskirts of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, coinciding with missile and artillery shelling in the area.
The Israeli forces Wednesday late night launched intensive air strikes and artillery bombardment, by air, land and sea, against the al-Mawasi area west of Rafah city in the southern enclave, where thousands of internally displaced persons are seeking shelter.
The Israeli Navy boats also fired heavy machine guns into the western areas of Rafah.
Thousands of civilians are living under deplorable conditions in al-Mawasi tent city. The United Nations and relief groups say “Muwasi – [an Israeli-designated safe zone] – is a poorly planned attempt to impose a solution for people who have been displaced, and they are dubious of the safety guarantee since Israeli airstrikes have targeted other areas where the army ordered people to go.”
The Mawasi, in southern Rafah’s so-called “safe area”, was subjected to repeated Israeli military attacks, leaving dozens of casualties and destruction. Humanitarian conditions are extremely dire in the tent city of al-Mawasi; a home for thousands of displaced people seeking refuge in the Israeli-declared safe zone.
The Israeli army has officially been added to a UN child-harm blacklist. The UN verified 5,698 “grave violations” by the army against children in 2023.
Five killed, 17 wounded in Israeli attacks on two homes in Nuseirat refugee camp while reports say Israeli forces used explosives to destroy buildings in the centre of Rafah.
WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Nafeq Street area of Gaza City with two missiles. The attack resulted in the killing of six people, including a woman and a child from the Sheikh family.
The victims were transported to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.
Gaza’s Civil Defence reports that seven Palestinians were killed after Israeli army aircraft targeted a residential apartment in the Daraj neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, in the north of the Strip.
Those killed include “three children, three women, and a man”, the Civil Defence said in a statement published on its Telegram change, adding that “a number of wounded were treated”.
At least four citizens were killed and dozens injured this afternoon in a series of Israeli bombardments on the cities of Gaza and Rafah in the war-ridden Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that one Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli drone strike on a group of people on Kashko Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
Furthermore, Israeli warplanes bombed the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, resulting in the killing of one citizen and injuries to four others.
In another incident, two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured due to an Israeli airstrike on the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip.
An Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in Gaza City killed seven Palestinians and injured others, including children and women, on Thursday, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency.
The agency reported that its teams “retrieved seven bodies: three children, three women, and a man, and dealt with several injuries following an Israeli attack on an apartment in the Al-Nafaq Street, near Al-Tabeen school.”
While the agency did not specify the nature of the injuries, witnesses told Anadolu Agency that civil defense crews searched for more victims and survivors under the rubble.
Witnesses also told Anadolu that Israeli artillery continues to shell areas and homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in southeast of Gaza City.
They noted that the artillery shelling caused several fires in homes and properties, with smoke columns visible from the eastern part of the area.
It remains unclear if the artillery shelling in Al-Zaytoun resulted in further casualties or injuries.
The Al-Zaytoun neighborhood is currently witnessing intense clashes between Palestinian resistance factions and the Israeli army.
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said that they had shelled the Israeli forces positioned east of the neighborhood with heavy mortar shells.
[Photo: Injured Palestinians children brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment after the Israeli attacks targeted Nuseirat camp, in Deir al Balah, Gaza on 13 06 2024. Photojournalist :Ashraf Amra/ AA]
