By Abdul Adil
London, (The Muslim News): 55 more Palestinians were killed and 114 others injured by Israeli Defence Forces’ indiscriminate bombings in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces to 40,173 and 92,857 injured since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday.
At least nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a marketplace in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday, a medical source said.
“A woman and two children were among the victims,” the source told Anadolu Agency.
The source said the death toll is likely to rise as many of the injured are in serious condition.
The targeted area was classified by the Israeli army as a “civilian safe zone” amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip.
The market was crowded with people at the time of the attack as it is located near a station serving the Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, which Israel classified as a “safe zone” for Palestinian civilians.
The attack came shortly after at least 12 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City on Tuesday the Civil Defense Agency said.
Several other people were injured in the attack that targeted the Mustafa Hafez School in the al-Rimal neighborhood, western Gaza City, which shelters hundreds of displaced people, medical sources told Anadolu.
The strike has caused the collapse of one of the school’s buildings that housed some 700 displaced civilians, eyewitnesses said.
Civil defense teams are still struggling to recover the victims from under the rubble of the destroyed building, they said.
Tuesday’s attack was the eighth to have targeted schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza since early August, according to an Anadolu reporter.
There are at least 10 Palestinians, including children, still in the ICU. They suffered critical injuries after Israeli forces targeted a roundabout in Deir el-Balah, reported Al Jazeera.
This area is also close to the market, it’s a very busy street. It has a lot of traffic and that’s why there are a lot of casualties.
Most of those who were wounded were children. Al Jazeera reporters saw them in the hospital in the corridors lying on the ground, covered in blood and waiting for doctors.
At the same time, that since Israeli forces took over the Philadelphi Corridor there has been no medical supplies entering Gaza and that’s why the number of casualties is expected to rise.
Israeli forces have targeted a street near the al-Birka roundabout. It’s in the heart of Deir el-Balah. It’s a very busy area.
The attack was a drone strike. Many were wounded most of them children, coming into the hospital in ambulances.
The hospital is also crowded with children lying on the ground without any treatment. Al-Aqsa Hospital has been suffering due to lack of medical supplies.
An Israeli drone airstrike Tuesday evening killed four Palestinian civilians and injured others east of the city of Khan Younes in the southern war-torn Gaza Strip, according to medical sources, repored Wafa News Agency.
They said that an Israeli military drone targeted a group of civilians at a telephone and Internet charging station in the Bani Suheila town, east of Khan Younes, killing four and injuring 10 others.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
[Photo: Palestinians live in makeshift tents in Deir al Balah having fled various areas of Gaza due to Israeli attacks on 19 08, 2024. Photojournalist: Abed Rahim Khatib /AA]
