Israeli airstrikes kill 34 Palestinians in European Hospital massacre in southern Gaza
GAZA, May 14 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation army committed on Tuesday evening a horrific massacre, killing 34 Palestinians and wounding dozens more, by launching a series of airstrikes on the European Hospital and its surroundings in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health and Civil Defense in Gaza said in two separate statements, according to “Anadolu Agency,” that the Israeli bombing resulted in the deaths of 34 Palestinians, including six in the hospital and 28 others in an adjacent home belonging to the Afghani family, as a result of the fire belts that targeted the hospital and its surroundings.
The ministry explained that “the direct bombing of the hospital grounds led to the martyrdom of six Palestinians and the wounding of more than 40 with various injuries.”
For his part, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that “the raids resulted in 28 martyrs in the Afghani home near the hospital, in addition to the injury of two Civil Defense personnel while attempting to evacuate.”
The Israeli occupation army acknowledged bombing the hospital, claiming to have targeted “Hamas members inside a command and control complex built under the hospital.” The Hebrew-language Walla news website quoted three informed Israeli sources as saying that the attack “was an assassination attempt on Mohammed Sinwar.”
The sources indicated that “the results of the attack are still unknown.”
Earlier, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian man and his wife in a strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced persons west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to a medical source.
The same source reported that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike targeting Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, while another Palestinian succumbed to his wounds in a dawn strike Tuesday on an area west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
At dawn on Tuesday, a medical source said that three Palestinians from the same family were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a tent in the Al-Amoudi area west of the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
YPA