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Gaza: Death toll from Israel’s aggression climbs to 65 victims

Wednesday 12-May-2021

The death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the impoverished Gaza Strip rose on Wednesday evening to at least 65 Palestinians including 14 children and five women.

Israel’s military aggression which entered the third day has also wounded a total of 365 civilians some seriously according to the latest developments on the ground as covered by field reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC).

At 07:20 pm at least three civilians were reportedly killed and another one was wounded when an airstrike targeted an area near al-Ihsan Mosque in Nuseirat refugee camp (central Gaza).

Earlier at 07:00 pm an apartment complex known as ash-Shurouq was reduced to rubble in a renewed airstrike.

At 06:30 pm Israeli warplanes fired several missiles at ash-Shurouq apartment complex and another building inside Abu Khudra compound in central Gaza.

At 06:15 pm an airstrike claimed the lives of two children and wounded two others in al-Fakhari neighborhood in Khan Yunis south of Gaza.

At 05:10 pm two air-to-surface missiles hit a building inside Abu Khudra compound.

At 04:30 pm Israeli artillery shelling of an agricultural swath of land in the east of Rafah (southern Gaza) claimed the life of an elderly man and wounded a child.

At 02:30 pm an Israeli warplane bombed a house in al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis killing two civilians and injuring others (no information about the number of the wounded).

At 02:10 pm two civilians were killed when an airstrike targeted a cooking gas distribution vehicle in the east of Khan Yunis.

At 02:00 pm a missile fired by a warplane hit a house belonging to Awaida family near Hijazi Clinic in at-Tawam area northwest of Gaza. One civilian was evacuated from there to al-Karama Hospital.

At 12:29 pm a military drone bombed a civilian house in Tel al-Zaatar area in northern Gaza.

At 12:27 pm the Israeli artillery fired several projectiles towards observation posts in the east of Abasan and al-Qarara towns east of Khan Yunis.

At 12:15 pm a drone bombed a house in Beit Hanoun City north of Gaza with no reported casualties.

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