GAZA, Sunday, November 5, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinian citizens have been murdered and many more sustained injuries over the last 12 hours as Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down on the Gaza Strip for the 30th consecutive day. The attacks have also caused extensive destruction to residential buildings, houses, apartments, and public and private properties.

WAFA correspondent, quoting the director of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza, Bashar Murad, reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building near Al-Quds Hospital in the Tel Al-Hawa area of Gaza City with a missile, murdering numerous innocent civilians and injuring many others, including displaced individuals.

A patient in the intensive care unit at the hospital was critically wounded by shrapnel from the missile explosion, he added.

Meantime, rescue and civil defense teams recovered the bodies of 21 family members of the Abu Hasira family after their home, located near the fishermen's port west of Gaza City, was targeted by Israeli airstrikes.

At least two children and one adult were also killed, with others injured, in an Israeli artillery bombardment targeting the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.

The Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City also witnessed a series of intensive Israeli airstrikes, leading to the destruction of numerous homes. Israeli airstrikes further targeted the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Mosque in the Al-Katiba Square west of Gaza City.

In its latest update yesterday, the Ministry of Health said the toll of casualties resulting from the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the West Bank since October 7 had climbed to at least 9,572 victims and over 26,000 injured, with over 1,600 others unaccounted for and feared dead under the rubble.

M.N