Mon 16-September-2024

US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 136

Monday 19-February-2024

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 136 on Monday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound neighborhoods, homes and shelter centers and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to attack different areas of Gaza, killing and injuring dozens of citizens.

According to local media sources, one civilian was martyred and others were injured when the Israeli army targeted a number of citizens on Road 5 in western Khan Yunis, while five other martyrs were evacuated to the European Gaza Hospital following other Israeli attacks on Khan Yunis.

Casualties were also reported following an Israeli attack on a house in the east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Meanwhile, bodies of four martyrs were retrieved today from the rubble of Rotana Hall in Miraj area, south of Khan Yunis, which had been bombed on Sunday.

Other casualties were reported in different areas of Gaza following Israeli aerial, artillery and shooting attacks last night and today.

In a related context, the health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 107 civilians and injuring over 145 others, while a large number of victims are still buried under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments, which started on October 7, climbed to 29,092 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 69,028 people.

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