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Deadly attacks on Gaza kill entire family more children and civilians

Thursday 20-May-2021

Israeli warplanes continued to pound the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening and night killing a family of three individuals including a little child and another woman.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that a warplane bombed the house of Iyad Salha a man with a physical disability killing home along with his wife who was seven months pregnant their two-year-old girl Nagham and a female neighbor.

Another air raid on northern Gaza in the evening claimed the life of a girl child and wounded several others.

Local sources reported that an aerial attack targeted a gathering of civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killing a 10-year-old child and injuring others.

Dozens of indiscriminate deadly airstrikes also destroyed several homes in different areas of Gaza including a house in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City an apartment in the west of Gaza and another house in Abasan al-Jadida in the east of Khan Yunis.

Other homes structures businesses and swaths of cultivated land were also bombed in the evening and last night by Israeli warplanes in other areas mainly in al-Zeitoun neighborhood Deir al-Balah refugee camp in central Gaza and Khan Yunis.

Later a dawn airstrike at around five o’clock on Thursday killed a woman and injured eight citizens during their presence near a house in al-Sater al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis.

At least four others mostly kids were injured in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Islim in al-Sabara neighborhood in Gaza City.

In a related context the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the embattled Gaza Strip has risen to at least 230 Palestinians including 65 children and 39 women.

Israel’s military aggression which entered the 11th day has also wounded a total of 1630 civilians dozens of them seriously according to the latest statistics from the Gaza health ministry on early Thursday.

In a new development Israeli warplanes at dawn Thursday launched renewed aerial attacks on different civilian areas of Gaza destroying at least seven homes killing one woman and wounding many others including children.

According to local sources one woman identified as 32-year-old Huda al- Khazindar was killed and seven others suffered injuries when airstrikes targeted four homes belonging to families in Khan Yunis City.

Other two homes were also bombed in al-Jalaa and al-Sabra neighborhoods in Khan Yunis injuring four children from the same family including a 10-year-old girl who lost one of her legs.

An air raid also destroyed a house belonging to the family of Ammar in al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza with no reported casualties.

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