17 Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since midnight

GAZA, Oct. 01 (YPA) – At least seventeen Palestinian civilians have been killed since after midnight until Wednesday morning, as a result of a series of airstrikes and shelling by Israeli warplanes and artillery targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian emergency and ambulance sources reported that three citizens were killed in airstrikes targeting two houses in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.

Another citizen was killed and several civil defense personnel were injured in direct Israeli airstrikes while attempting to transport wounded from the shelling of the Al-Falah School, which was sheltering displaced persons in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

The body of slain youth Hosni Abu Huwaishel was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an apartment was targeted in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, dozens of explosive devices dropped by Israeli quadcopter drones exploded on the roofs of civilian homes, causing extensive material damage.

Israeli warplanes also bombed an apartment on Al-Thawra Street in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, resulting in injuries.

Other civilians were injured when a house on Al-Thalathini Street in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city, was targeted.

@E.Y.M