At least 36 people died early Sunday morning in Israeli bombings in the Jabalia refugee camps, in the north of the Gaza Strip, and in Deir al Balah, in the center, reported the official Palestinian agency Wafa.
“The bombings targeted civilian homes, according to local witnesses,” Wafa reported, on the 72nd day of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas.
Emergency teams recovered the bodies of at least 24 people in Jabalia, one of the places where clashes have occurred in recent weeks. Nearly a hundred people were injured and dozens are still under the rubble.
In the Deir al Balah refugee camp, where thousands of people sought refuge after having to leave the north, at least 12 Palestinians died, according to emergency services cited by Wafa.
In the south, in the city of Khan Younis – another Hamas stronghold and the center of the fighting – Israeli artillery fired a missile, which did not explode, towards the Nasser hospital, which houses hundreds of wounded and displaced people.
Israeli naval forces attacked several areas north of Khan Younis province and its western coast, Wafa said.
During the night, aerial bombardments also occurred on the Al Jenena neighborhood, in Rafah, at the southern end of the Strip, declared by Israel as a “humanitarian zone”, supposedly safe, where more than a million people who fled fighting elsewhere. .of the enclave.
Since the war began on October 7, around 19,000 Gazans have died as a result of Israeli shelling and fighting, including almost eight thousand children, while another 51,000 are injured and an estimated 7,500 bodies are trapped under the debris, according to the Ministry of Health. from the Hamas-controlled Strip.
Source: TSF
