GAZA, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 (WAFA) – Over the last few hours, a barrage of Israeli airstrikes targeted several areas across the Gaza Strip, resulting in multiple civilians killed and many others injured, according to local and medical sources.
WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes targeted two houses in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. The attack led to the killing of two civilians and the injury of dozens. Simultaneously, Israeli artillery shelled the neighborhoods Shejaiya, Sabra, Tal Al-Hawa, and Sheikh Ajleen in the city.
In another attack, a civilian was killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians on Salah al-Din Road, southeast of Gaza City. The injured were transported to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital for treatment.
Israeli warplanes also bombed a house in the northern Gaza Strip, alongside artillery shelling on various areas.
In the central Gaza Strip, two civilians were killed and others were injured as the occupation artillery targeted the surroundings of a school sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah.
Additionally, Israeli warplanes bombed a residential tower in the town of Al-Zahraa, in central Gaza. The aftermath of the attack is yet to be determined.
In the south, two civilians were killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli shelling targeting a house in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah city.
Simultaneously, Israeli warships fired two shells and opened heavy machine gun fire towards the coast of Rafah city.
In Khan Yunis, citizens and paramedics recovered around 84 bodies of martyrs, most of them decomposed, in the aftermath of the Israeli army pullout of the city. Some of the bodies were transferred to Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, while others were buried by the citizens themselves.
In a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 has resulted in the killing of 33,207 citizens, mostly children and women, and the injury of more than 75,933 others.
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