Dozens of civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes, bombings on Gaza
GAZA, Feb. 21 (YPA) – Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured last night and at dawn today during the ongoing Israeli occupation bombardment of the Gaza Strip, since October 7th, 2023.
According to Palestinian sources, the occupation aircraft launched fire belts on residential squares in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, targeting dozens of homes, killing and wounding dozens, the majority of whom are still under the rubble of homes owned by several families.
They added that the occupation artillery targeted with dozens of shells civilian homes in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, as the occupation drones fired at citizens’ homes and at everything moving in the neighborhood’s alleys and streets.
According to the sources, civil defense crews and ambulances were unable to reach the targeted areas in the neighborhood to recover the bodies of the slain civilians and transport the injured.
Meanwhile, the occupation aircraft launched a series of raids that targeted several neighborhoods of Gaza City, especially Tal Al-Hawa, Al-Sabra, and Al-Shuja’iya, killing a number of people and injuring others, most of whom were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital.
Moreover, the occupation aircraft targeted two houses in Nuseirat camp, killing seven citizens, including children, and injuring about 15 others, who were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah.
In Khan Yunis, the Israeli artillery bombed the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, wounding several citizens and damaging buildings.
The occupation forces are still besieging the hospital, which contains about 120 injured men, patients, and medical staff.
Six citizens were killed, and others injured, in an Israeli bombing of a civilian vehicle on Abu Hosni Street in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, occupation aircraft bombed three homes in Shaboura camp in the center of the city, as the Israeli navy fired several shells that fell in the vicinity of the tents of the displaced people in Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah, wounding many of them. They were transferred to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar, Emirati and Al-Kuwaiti hospitals in the city.
E.M