At least 18 Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on several areas in Gaza

GAZA, Aug. 19 (YPA) – At least 18 Palestinian  civilians, including children and women, were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday morning as a result of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling of various locations and neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources reported .

In the vicinity of the University College west of Khan Younis, two civilians, including a child, were killed when a tent housing displaced persons was targeted.

Later, medical sources at the hospital reported that four others were killed and injured when the Israeli occupation forces shelled a tent housing displaced persons near “Fash Fursh” in the Al-Mawasi area west of the city.

In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said that five people were killed and a number of others were wounded as a result of a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Bassa area.

The same hospital also said five other people were killed as a result of the occupation’s targeting of groups of citizens near the “Kissufim” site, southeast of Deir al-Balah.

Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City, said two people were killed and 53 wounded as a result of the occupation forces’ bombing of crowds of citizens waiting for food aid in the “Zikim” area, northwest of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Just before midnight last night, four civilians, including a journalist, were killed and others were injured in shelling that targeted the Al-Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City and other areas in Deir al-Balah.

@E.Y.M