Medical sources in Gaza Strip hospitals announced early Wednesday morning that 63 Palestinians, including 24 children, were killed in a series of ongoing Israeli airstrikes targeting homes and tents of displaced people in various parts of the Strip, making it a new violation of the ceasefire agreement that went into effect on October 11.
WAFA correspondents said that 18 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in a horrific massacre perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces when they bombed a house belonging to the Abu Dalal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A number of Palestinians remain missing under the rubble.
Israeli occupation aircraft also bombed a tent sheltering displaced people in the Insan camp east of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, resulting in the killing of five citizens, including children. In al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes bombed the Abu Sharar family home in Block 7, killing a child and injuring several other civilians.
In Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli warplanes and drones targeted tents of displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, resulting in injuries. The bombing of the al-Qudra family home in the al-Amal neighborhood killed a man and a child. Five other civilians were killed in an airstrike that targeted a vehicle on one of the city’s streets.
Meanwhile in Gaza City, Israeli warplanes bombed the al-Banna family home in the al-Sabra neighborhood, killing four civilians, including a child and an infant, and injuring nine others. Several people remain trapped under the rubble. Three civilians, including a child, were also killed in another airstrike that targeted a house near the Yarmouk area.
In Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, three civilians were killed and others injured when a school sheltering displaced people was bombed. A civilian was also killed and others injured in an airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced people south of al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
Earlier yesterday evening, medical sources announced that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, had risen to 68,531, the majority of whom were children and women, in addition to 170,402 wounded. A number of victims remain trapped under the rubble, with rescue and ambulance crews facing significant difficulties in reaching them.
The sources confirmed that four slain people were taken to hospitals in the past 24 hours (including one newly killed, two whose bodies were recovered, and one who succumbed to his wounds), in addition to seven wounded. The total number of slain Gazans since the ceasefire agreement has reached 94, while 344 were wounded (in addition to the 63 who were killed last night and this morning), while 474 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble.
So far, 75 of the 195 bodies recently handed over by the occupation authorities have been identified, according to medical sources in Gaza.