GAZA, (PIC)
In the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians — half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 435th consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas.
Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation army carried out attacks on several homes, civilian targets and shelter centers in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, killing and injuring dozens of citizens.
The Israeli army’s large-scale genocidal campaign in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalia and Beit Lahia, has entered day 71, where its forces continue to intensively bomb homes and shelters and attack civilians while imposing a tight siege on the entire area.
Deliberate Israeli attacks on ambulance and civil defense workers already deprived northern Gaza of any rescue services.
Local sources said Israeli warplanes bombed the municipality building in central Gaza, killing seven citizens, including Deir al-Balah mayor Dhia al-Jarro, and injuring two others.
Journalist Mohamed Ba’lusha, a correspondent for Al-Mashhad satellite channel, was also martyred in an Israeli strike on his home in Ahmed Yassin street in as-Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza.
The Israeli army also bombed a school sheltering displaced families in the west of Gaza City, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, mostly women and children.
Two brothers were martyred when the Israeli army bombed a group of citizens in Abasan al-Jadida town, south of Gaza.
More casualties were reported in other 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 Saturday that the Israeli army committed two massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, and killed and injured at least 225 civilians, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.
