Three Palestinians killed, other injured in Israeli bombing of residential apartment in Gaza

GAZA, Aug. 07 (YPA) – Three Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured at dawn on Wednesday, after the Israeli occupation bombed a residential apartment east of Gaza City.

According to Palestinian sources, the bombing targeted an apartment belonging to the family of Ahmed Hamada, next to Yaffa School in Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza, where he was killed along with his wife and their son.

The occupation forces also opened fire on citizens’ homes east of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in the injury of a number of citizens, who were subsequently transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation boats bombed the area around Wadi Gaza Bridge northwest of Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a house on Salah al-Din Street at the entrance to Nuseirat camp, while the occupation artillery fired its shells towards the neighborhoods of Tal al-Hawa and al-Zeitoun in Gaza City.

The occupation warplanes raided the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and the eastern part of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation artillery bombed the area around Sheikh Zayed Towers east of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, and the area west of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed in a report that the bombing and hostilities continue to kill, injure and displace Palestinians, and destroy infrastructure.

The UN office stated that during the past 48 hours, three schools housing displaced persons in Gaza were bombed, resulting in dozens of casualties.

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