GAZA, Monday, May 6, 2024 (WAFA) – The occupation warplanes and artillery intensified today their bombardment on various areas of the cities of Gaza and Rafah.

The occupation warplanes carried out intense airstrikes on the eastern areas of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets further targeted the vicinity of Gaza (Yasser Arafat) International Airport and the Al-Shoka neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah.

Moving to the city of Gaza, a Palestinian journalist who was identified as Mustafa Ayyad was killed after being targeted by a missile from a drone in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.

Additionally, occupation artillery also targeted multiple homes in the vicinity of Street 8 in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.  

Israeli military tanks and vehicles intensively opened gunfire towards civilian's homes in the Sheikh Ajlin area, southwest of the city.

Rescue and ambulance crews retrieved the bodies of two people after they were targeted by occupation artillery shells in the Bureij camp.

The occupation continues to close the commercial Kerem Shalom/Karm Abu Salem crossing in the south for the second day in a row, denying the access of relief aid into the Strip.

Medical sources announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 34,683, and injuries to 78,018, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7.  

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