GAZA, Friday, May 17, 2024 (WAFA) – Four Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central blockaded Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes targeted al-Jaouni School, which has been sheltering displaced persons, in the camp, killing four and injuring others.
On Thursday night through early Friday, the Israeli occupation launched a series of airstrikes across central, northern, and southern war-torn Strip, while simultaneously shelling several Gazan areas.
An Israeli raid targeted a Palestinian house located in the al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza and other raids targeted central Gaza city.
Earlier, a Palestinian young man was killed while two others were injured in the Israeli bombardment of the al-Awda roundabout in central Rafah. This came as Israeli artillery shelling targeted the eastern area of the city.
A number of Palestinians were also injured in intense Israeli raids targeting Jabalia, where residential squares were deliberately attacked, and artillery shelling across the northern Strip.
Medical sources said that the bodies of nine Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes and bombardment arrived at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younes.
Meanwhile, at least two others were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a gathering of displaced people. This came as Israeli fighter jets targeted the Askula area in Gaza and two houses; one in front of Kuwait Hospital in Rafah and the other in al-Janeinah neighbourhood
Tried before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 35,272 Palestinians and injuring over 79,205 others.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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