Jerusalem – At least 80 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed by Israeli air strikes in the last few hours in Gaza, according to what medical and local sources indicated to the Palestinian agency Wafa, while the Israeli Army claimed to have killed about thirty Hamas militiamen in the strip.
While waiting for the Gaza Ministry of Health to confirm the total number of fatalities this morning, some 36 people died last night in attacks on two houses in the Nuseirat camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip, sources in the ground to the Palestinian agency.
For its part, the army said it had killed 15 alleged militants “hiding in a Hamas site” in Nuseirat during an airstrike, explains a military statement, which says that the attack was directed by the 215th artillery regiment “based on information Intelligence”.
The same regiment, the army says, led a second airstrike “killing a commander of a Hamas sniper squad” and another militant.
Bombing of a residential building
The rest of the civilian deaths, mostly women and children, perished in the bombing of a seven-story residential building “that housed displaced people,” according to Wafa, near Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, and another air attack against a house on Al Jalaa street in the same city.
Additionally, five other civilians were killed and dozens more injured in an airstrike on a house in the Al Tuffah neighborhood, and a similar bombing caused an unknown number of deaths and injuries in the Al Nasr neighborhood, both in Gaza City.
In turn, Wafa reported “intense air attacks” on the city of Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Strip, with bombings that also took place against an inhabited house in Rafah, in the south of the enclave and where more than 1.4 people are taking refuge. millions of displaced.
In central Gaza, Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Brigade, according to the statement, killed “about 10 gunmen” in the last day; and in Khan Yunis fighter planes destroyed “a weapons depot” and attacked alleged militiamen.
85% of the Gazan population displaced
After more than five months of war, 85% of the Gazan population has been displaced, and 60% of the Strip’s infrastructure, according to UN estimates, is damaged or destroyed, with malnourished babies and little medical care due to to Israeli attacks.
In total, as of yesterday, nearly 31,500 people have already died in Gaza, more than 72% of them women and children, and around 73,400 have been injured, according to data from the local Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
BY: TTU
