Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded in new Israeli strikes targeting various areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Scores of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed, and others were injured, in the ongoing occupation bombing of homes in the Rafah and Khan Yunis governorates in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to WAFA correspondent, 20 civilians were killed, and dozens were injured, when Israeli warplanes bombed a number of homes in Rafah. There are still missing people under the rubble, he added.
PALESTINIAN MEDICAL SOURCES: 20 Palestinians were killed in Israel's bombing of several homes in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn on Tuesday.
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Two Palestinians were also killed, and two others were injured, in an Israeli artillery shelling on Khan Yunis.
On Monday night, scores of Palestinians were killed and injured in the ongoing Israeli shelling targeting different locations in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes shelled the home of the al-Arqan family in Deir al-Balah city, in central Gaza, killing and wounding several civilians.
Several other Palestinians were injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting the house of the Eisa family, also in Deir al-Balah.
Israel’s talk about a ceasefire is but a ‘maneuver’ aimed at Israeli public opinion only, Hamas said on Tuesday.
Others say Israel is desperate for a ceasefire due to its inability to achieve any military victory in Gaza.
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Israeli jets also shelled Khirbet al-Adas to the east of Rafah and Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Strip.
In Khan Yunis, in the southern Strip, several people were killed and others wounded by Israeli snipers’ bullets.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 18,205 Palestinians have been killed and 49,645 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
(PC, WAFA)
