GAZA, Saturday, February 17, 2024 (WAFA) - Scores of civilians today were killed and others were wounded in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes that targeted multiple areas across Gaza Strip as the Israeli war of genocide enters its 134th day, according to local and medical sources.
Medical sources said that Israeli warplanes bombed three houses in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and two houses in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the center of the city, resulting in the killing of at least 10 people and the injury of 20 others.
Israeli occupation forces also targeted a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, wounding six people, including two children.
In Rafah, south of the Strip, Israeli fighter jets carried out three attacks on the Shaboura camp in the center of the city, resulting in the killing of at least six people and causing injury to nine others.
Meanwhile, occupation artillery shelled with several missiles the eastern and southern border areas.
Furthermore, a Palestinian civilian was further reported killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Al-Jeneina neighborhood, in the center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes also targeted the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, coinciding with artillery shelling by Israeli occupation forces in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in northern Gaza.
Israeli artillery forces further intensively bombed the southern and eastern areas of the city of Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
The occupation forces continued their military siege of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis city, amid a power outage.
Power generators inside the Complex are expected to stop operating due to running out of fuel, which led to the tragic killing of at least five patients.
Medical sources added that around five medical personnel are still working inside the Complex, under harsh and frightening conditions, lacking adequate medical supplies, facing a power outage and facing a severe shortage of water food, and medicines.
Oxygen support and feeding tubes have stopped operating inside the complex due to the ongoing Israeli shelling.
Meanwhile, Israeli tanks and drones deliberately shoot anyone who try to move by gun-firing drones in the Complex’s courtyards or within its departments.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that the situation in the Nasser Medical Complex is dangerous and catastrophic, as Israeli occupation forces compelled the administration of Nasser Medical Complex to evacuate maternity and surgery department and relocate patients to the old Nasser building under Israel’s indiscriminate shooting and bombardment in a clear violation of all humanitarian, legal and international norms and values.
The Complex's patients, including children, women and the elderly, are at an imminent risk of death due to the ongoing Israeli shelling of the Complex, where four patients were killed today due to a lack of oxygen after Israeli forces cutting off electricity.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 has resulted in more than 28,775 confirmed fatalities, including over 12,000 children. Additionally, over 68,552 people have been injured.
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