GAZA, Monday, December 25, 2023 (WAFA) – Dozens of civilians were killed and injured, mostly children and women, in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes that targeted different areas in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Several people were killed and injured in Israeli strikes targeting the vicinity of the European hospital, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Strip, and a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in southern Gaza City.
Israeli jets also shelled the eastern areas in Deir al-Balah, and the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Strip.
Israeli warplanes and artillery also shelled al-Sekka St. between the refugee camps of Nuseirat and al- Bureij, in the central Strip, in an attempt to severe communications between Palestinian refugee camps in the Strip.
Eyewitnesses in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City affirmed that Israeli soldiers assassinated several youths and dumped their bodies in the streets. Ambulances were unable to retrieve their bodies.
Also in the said neighborhood, local sources affirmed the killing of the Member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ayman Na’im al-Maghoun, in an Israeli airstrike.
In the northern Strip, Israeli forces raided the ambulance center in Jabalia and forced the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) staff to evacuate the center. Forces further destroyed the center’s ambulances.
Sources said that 21 injured people were evacuated from the Baptist hospital and 13 other wounded and displaced persons were evacuated from al-Shifa Medical Complex to hospitals in the southern Strip.
Israeli artillery and warplanes also shelled the Bani Suheila area and the town of Khuza'a in Khan Yunis city, in the southern Strip, killing and injuring scores of civilians.
The Israeli bombardment continued following a bloody night after a massacre in al-Maghazi and al-Bureij refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of about 95 people, as warplanes and artillery bombed an entire residential square.
Sources said that bodies are piling up at al-Shuhada’a hospital, in the central Strip, waiting to be buried.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the 7th of last October has resulted in the death of 20,424 people and the wounding of about 54,036 citizens, more than 70% of whom are women and children.
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