GAZA, (PIC)
As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 61 on Wednesday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and level whole blocks and homes and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.
According to local sources, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of attacks last night and in the morning on different areas of Gaza.
The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation army concentrated its attacks on Khan Yunis and the north and east of the Gaza Strip, adding that Israeli incursions in the south were met with fierce resistance.
Meanwhile, dozens of casualties were reported after Israeli warplanes bombed al-Falah School and Salahuddin School in Gaza City. Both of them are being used as shelters for displaced people.
Many other civilians were also either killed or injured during overnight and morning artillery and aerial attacks on different neighborhoods of Gaza
Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance continued to fend off Israeli incursions in different areas of Gaza, especially in Khan Yunis where they carried out operations described as “heroic” against the infiltrating troops during the past 24 hours.
According to the PIC reporter, al-Qassam fighters have carried out close-range operations against infiltrating troops in Khan Yunis, killing and injuring a large number of them and destroying several armored vehicles.
One of those operations included a mortar attack on Israeli forces in the east of Khan Yunis.
Al-Qassam fighters also fired rockets and projectiles at the military sites of Sufa and Kissufim and the illegal settlement of Nir Yitzhak.
For its part, al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said that its fighters launched a mortar attack on gatherings of Israeli troops in the vicinity of the Cultural Center in Bani Suheila and fired a volley of rockets at the illegal settlement of Mivtahim.
Al-Quds Brigades fighters also fired mortar shells at Israeli military gatherings near Sheikh Nasser area and an anti-personnel projectile at special forces near al-Dilal Mosque in the east of Khan Yunis.
