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 455th 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 Friday 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 91, 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 the Israeli army bombed a group of civilians near ash-Sharq bakery in Gaza City’s an-Nasser street, killing one of them and injuring others.
Two other people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in al-Mughrabi street in Gaza City.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes bombed a girl school near al-Farouk Mosque in az-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City, with no reported casualties.
Another Israeli attack claimed the lives of three children and injured other civilians near ash-Sham’ah Mosque in az-Zeitoun neighborhood.
The Israeli army also attacked a gathering of citizens in al-Lababidi street in the west of Gaza, killing four of them, while casualties, including two martyrs, were reported following an Israeli strike on a warehouse sheltering displaced people in the east of Deir al-Balah City in central Gaza.
Another Israeli attack on guards protecting aid at the junction of Bahloul in Gaza City killed a young man.
An airstrike on a group of citizens near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City claimed the lives of four of them and injured others.
A number of people also suffered injuries when Israeli quadcopters dropped bombs on the market of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza.
Earlier, several children were injured when the Israeli army targeted a house belonging to the family of ad-Dirawi in az-Zawaida in central Gaza.
Within two hours, nine people were martyred, including a journalist, in Israeli attacks on three houses in central 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 Friday that the Israeli army committed eight massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, and killed and injured at least 222 civilians, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.