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May 2021 |
20 may 2021
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Masisara Abdul-Shakour al-Ar’ir, 22
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Hashem Shorafa
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Saeb al-Khalout
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Huda Salah Al-Khuzandar, 36
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An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire have been reached between Israel and Palestinian factions, bringing an end to the Israeli onslaught that left 234 Palestinians killed and over 1,700 others injured.
The Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported that the “mutual and simultaneous” ceasefire will come into force as of 2:00 A.M. Friday (Palestine local time).
It pointed that “Cairo will send two security delegations to Tel Aviv and the Palestinian territories to follow up the executive measures of implementing the ceasefire deal and agree on the coming measures that could maintain a permanent stability in the situation.”
The Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported that the “mutual and simultaneous” ceasefire will come into force as of 2:00 A.M. Friday (Palestine local time).
It pointed that “Cairo will send two security delegations to Tel Aviv and the Palestinian territories to follow up the executive measures of implementing the ceasefire deal and agree on the coming measures that could maintain a permanent stability in the situation.”
Two Palestinian civilians were killed and another one was seriously injured when an Israeli airstrike on Thursday afternoon bombed the car they were aboard in al-Saftawi area, northwest of Gaza City. video
Pictures circulated on social media showed a destroyed and burnt car on a road in al-Saftawi area.
Meanwhile, nine civilians suffered injuries when an aerial attack targeted two apartment buildings in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and Rafah area in southern Gaza.
Quds Press quoted its reporter in Gaza as saying that a warplane bombed the entrance of al-Ra’ed building and one of its apartments in al-Rimal neighborhood.
The reporter added that the airstrike caused major destruction to the building and damage to several parked cars on the street.
A warplane also targeted, for the fourth time, the house of al-Maghir family in Rafah, wounding three civilians.
Other airstrikes targeted two homes in al-Shejaiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City and Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza, with no reported casualties.
According to the latest statistics from the Gaza health ministry on Thursday evening, the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against Gaza has risen to at least 234 Palestinians, including 65 children and 39 women.
Israel’s military aggression, which entered the 11th day, has also wounded at least 1,760 civilians, dozens of them seriously.
Pictures circulated on social media showed a destroyed and burnt car on a road in al-Saftawi area.
Meanwhile, nine civilians suffered injuries when an aerial attack targeted two apartment buildings in al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and Rafah area in southern Gaza.
Quds Press quoted its reporter in Gaza as saying that a warplane bombed the entrance of al-Ra’ed building and one of its apartments in al-Rimal neighborhood.
The reporter added that the airstrike caused major destruction to the building and damage to several parked cars on the street.
A warplane also targeted, for the fourth time, the house of al-Maghir family in Rafah, wounding three civilians.
Other airstrikes targeted two homes in al-Shejaiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City and Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza, with no reported casualties.
According to the latest statistics from the Gaza health ministry on Thursday evening, the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against Gaza has risen to at least 234 Palestinians, including 65 children and 39 women.
Israel’s military aggression, which entered the 11th day, has also wounded at least 1,760 civilians, dozens of them seriously.
Israeli warplanes continued to pound the Gaza Strip on Thursday evening and night, killing a family of three individuals, including a little child, and another woman.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that a warplane bombed the house of Iyad Salha, a man with a physical disability, killing home along with his wife, who was seven months pregnant, their two-year-old girl, Nagham, and a female neighbor.
Another air raid on northern Gaza in the evening claimed the life of a girl child and wounded several others.
Local sources reported that an aerial attack targeted a gathering of civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing a 10-year-old child and injuring others.
Dozens of indiscriminate deadly airstrikes also destroyed several homes in different areas of Gaza, including a house in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, an apartment in the west of Gaza and another house in Abasan al-Jadida in the east of Khan Yunis.
Other homes, structures, businesses and swaths of cultivated land were also bombed in the evening and last night by Israeli warplanes in other areas, mainly in al-Zeitoun neighborhood, Deir al-Balah refugee camp in central Gaza and Khan Yunis.
Later, a dawn airstrike at around five o’clock on Thursday killed a woman and injured eight citizens during their presence near a house in al-Sater al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis. video
At least four others, mostly kids, were injured in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Islim in al-Sabara neighborhood in Gaza City.
In a related context, the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the embattled Gaza Strip has risen to at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children and 39 women.
Israel’s military aggression, which entered the 11th day, has also wounded a total of 1,630 civilians, dozens of them seriously, according to the latest statistics from the Gaza health ministry on early Thursday.
In a new development, Israeli warplanes at dawn Thursday launched renewed aerial attacks on different civilian areas of Gaza, destroying at least seven homes, killing one woman and wounding many others, including children.
According to local sources, one woman identified as 32-year-old Huda al- Khazindar was killed and seven others suffered injuries when airstrikes targeted four homes belonging to families in Khan Yunis City.
Other two homes were also bombed in al-Jalaa and al-Sabra neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, injuring four children from the same family, including a 10-year-old girl who lost one of her legs.
An air raid also destroyed a house belonging to the family of Ammar in al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, with no reported casualties.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that a warplane bombed the house of Iyad Salha, a man with a physical disability, killing home along with his wife, who was seven months pregnant, their two-year-old girl, Nagham, and a female neighbor.
Another air raid on northern Gaza in the evening claimed the life of a girl child and wounded several others.
Local sources reported that an aerial attack targeted a gathering of civilians in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing a 10-year-old child and injuring others.
Dozens of indiscriminate deadly airstrikes also destroyed several homes in different areas of Gaza, including a house in al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, an apartment in the west of Gaza and another house in Abasan al-Jadida in the east of Khan Yunis.
Other homes, structures, businesses and swaths of cultivated land were also bombed in the evening and last night by Israeli warplanes in other areas, mainly in al-Zeitoun neighborhood, Deir al-Balah refugee camp in central Gaza and Khan Yunis.
Later, a dawn airstrike at around five o’clock on Thursday killed a woman and injured eight citizens during their presence near a house in al-Sater al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis. video
At least four others, mostly kids, were injured in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Islim in al-Sabara neighborhood in Gaza City.
In a related context, the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression against the embattled Gaza Strip has risen to at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children and 39 women.
Israel’s military aggression, which entered the 11th day, has also wounded a total of 1,630 civilians, dozens of them seriously, according to the latest statistics from the Gaza health ministry on early Thursday.
In a new development, Israeli warplanes at dawn Thursday launched renewed aerial attacks on different civilian areas of Gaza, destroying at least seven homes, killing one woman and wounding many others, including children.
According to local sources, one woman identified as 32-year-old Huda al- Khazindar was killed and seven others suffered injuries when airstrikes targeted four homes belonging to families in Khan Yunis City.
Other two homes were also bombed in al-Jalaa and al-Sabra neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, injuring four children from the same family, including a 10-year-old girl who lost one of her legs.
An air raid also destroyed a house belonging to the family of Ammar in al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, with no reported casualties.
A Palestinian civilian died and another one was injured today in an Israeli airstrike that hit the northwest of Beit Lahia town in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.
The wounded civilian was moved to the nearby Indonesian Hospital for medical treatment where his case was described as critical.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health said that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 230, while the number of wounded increased to 1,710. It said the death toll includes 65 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly.
Gaza death toll tops 230, over 1,700 wounded
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 230, while the number of wounded increased to 1,710.MoH said the death toll includes 65 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly.
Israeli started a barbaric aggression on Gaza from the land, air and sea on the tenth of this month, and has since crippled all sectors of life in the coastal enclave.
Entire roads and power networks were destroyed, and high-rise buildings were flattened to the ground during the ongoing aggression.
In addition, over 50,000 Palestinian civilians remain internally displaced as a result of the heavy bombing that mainly targeted homes and other residential facilities in the war-ridden Strip.
Meantime, the Ministry of Education said 46 school buildings were partially damaged during the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza.
The wounded civilian was moved to the nearby Indonesian Hospital for medical treatment where his case was described as critical.
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health said that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 230, while the number of wounded increased to 1,710. It said the death toll includes 65 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly.
Gaza death toll tops 230, over 1,700 wounded
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 230, while the number of wounded increased to 1,710.MoH said the death toll includes 65 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly.
Israeli started a barbaric aggression on Gaza from the land, air and sea on the tenth of this month, and has since crippled all sectors of life in the coastal enclave.
Entire roads and power networks were destroyed, and high-rise buildings were flattened to the ground during the ongoing aggression.
In addition, over 50,000 Palestinian civilians remain internally displaced as a result of the heavy bombing that mainly targeted homes and other residential facilities in the war-ridden Strip.
Meantime, the Ministry of Education said 46 school buildings were partially damaged during the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza.
The Israeli army continued, on Thursday at dawn, its extensive airstrikes, and bombings in several parts of the Gaza Strip, causing excessive damage to many homes and buildings, in addition to injuring many Palestinians, including a child who suffered serious wounds.
Media sources in Gaza, said the army fired a missile at a home in the Sabra neighborhood in the city, wounding many Palestinians, including four children; one of them, a 10-year-old girl, suffered life-threatening wounds. video
They added that the army also fired missiles into a home, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, leveling it and causing damage to surrounding buildings. video video video
The army also fired missiles into a site believed to be a surveillance post of an armed resistance group in Gaza.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the army carried out at least thirty bombing attacks, targeting homes, streets, structures, buildings, and towers, especially north of Gaza city, Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the coastal region. More than thirteen Palestinians were injured. video
The Israeli missiles also targeted main roads, including the street that links Gaza city with the northern areas of the coastal region, and caused severe damage to many homes, in addition to bombing electric grids, water, and sewage networks.
Media sources in Gaza, said the army fired a missile at a home in the Sabra neighborhood in the city, wounding many Palestinians, including four children; one of them, a 10-year-old girl, suffered life-threatening wounds. video
They added that the army also fired missiles into a home, west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, leveling it and causing damage to surrounding buildings. video video video
The army also fired missiles into a site believed to be a surveillance post of an armed resistance group in Gaza.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the army carried out at least thirty bombing attacks, targeting homes, streets, structures, buildings, and towers, especially north of Gaza city, Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip, and Khan Younis in the southern part of the coastal region. More than thirteen Palestinians were injured. video
The Israeli missiles also targeted main roads, including the street that links Gaza city with the northern areas of the coastal region, and caused severe damage to many homes, in addition to bombing electric grids, water, and sewage networks.
Israeli forces have displayed a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians by carrying out a number of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in some cases killing entire families – including children – and causing wanton destruction to civilian property, in attacks that may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, said Amnesty International today.
Amnesty International has documented four deadly attacks by Israel launched on residential homes without prior warning and is calling for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently investigate these attacks. The death toll in Gaza continues to climb with at least 198 Palestinians killed including 58 children and more than 1,220 injured. Ten people in Israel, including two children, have been killed and at least 27 injured by Palestinian attacks.
“There is a horrific pattern emerging of Israel launching air strikes in Gaza targeting residential buildings and family homes – in some cases entire families were buried beneath the rubble when the buildings they lived in collapsed. In the cases documented below, no prior warning was given to the civilian residents to allow them to escape. Under international humanitarian law, all parties must distinguish between military targets and civilian objects and direct their attacks only at military objectives. When carrying out attacks, parties must take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians,” said Saleh Higazi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
Although the Israeli military has given no explanation of what military objectives it was targeting in these attacks, it is hard to imagine how bombing residential buildings full of civilian families without warning could be considered proportionate under international humanitarian law. It is not possible to use large explosive weapons, like aircraft bombs that have a blast radius of many hundreds of meters, in populated areas without anticipating major civilian casualties.
“By carrying out these brazen deadly attacks on family homes without warning Israel has demonstrated a callous disregard for lives of Palestinian civilians who are already suffering the collective punishment of Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza since 2007.”
The Israeli army claims that it only attacks military targets and has justified airstrikes on residential buildings on that basis. However, residents told Amnesty International that there were no fighters or military objectives in the vicinity at the time of the attacks documented.
“Deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian property and infrastructure are war crimes, as are disproportionate attacks. The International Criminal Court has an active investigation into the situation in Palestine and should urgently investigate these attacks as war crimes. States should also consider exercising universal jurisdiction over those who commit war crimes. Impunity only works to fuel the pattern of unlawful attacks and civilian bloodshed, which have we have repeatedly documented in previous Israeli military offensives on Gaza,” said Saleh Higazi.
At least 152 residential properties in Gaza have been destroyed since 11 May, according to the Gaza-based human rights organization, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, Israeli strikes have destroyed 94 buildings, comprising 461 housing and commercial units while 285 housing units have been severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable.
According to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) more than 2,500 people have been made homeless due to the destruction of their homes and more than 38,000 people have been internally displaced and have sought shelter in 48 UNRWA schools across Gaza.
Indiscriminate rocket-fire by Palestinian armed groups towards civilian areas of Israel has also killed and injured civilians and damaged homes and other civilian properties. The rockets fired from Gaza into Israel are imprecise and their use violates international humanitarian law which prohibits the use of weapons that are by nature indiscriminate. These attacks should also be investigated by the ICC as war crimes.
Amnesty International has previously published evidence that the Israeli military had a deliberate policy of targeting family homes during the 2014 conflict.
Devastating attacks on family homesIn one of the heaviest episodes of bombardment since the latest fighting began, between 1am and 2am on 16 May Israel carried out airstrikes against residential buildings and streets in Gaza City. The attacks completely destroyed two residential buildings belonging to the Abu al-Ouf and al-Kolaq families – killing 30 people – 11 of them children.
Gaza’s Ministry of Labour building was also destroyed in the attacks. The attack blocked al-Wehda Street, one of the main roads leading to the main hospital in Gaza, al-Shifa.
The families residing in the four-storey al-Ouf building, which included residential apartments and shops, received no prior warning – they were buried beneath the rubble in the attack.
Yousef Yassin, a medic from al-Shifa Hospital, was one of the first to arrive on the scene of al-Ouf Building after the attack and helped pull survivors from the wreckage with the Red Crescent. He described the scene to Amnesty International as one of “great destruction”.
I helped get out four dead [bodies], but there were many more. It was very hard. There was no warning, so people were inside their home sitting together, and this is a lively, bustling area,” he said.
Shortly before midnight on 14 May Israeli air strikes hit the three-storey building of the al-Atar family in Beit Lahia killing 28-year-old Lamya Hassan Mohammed Al-Atar her three children Islam, seven, Amira, six, and Mohammed an eight-month-old baby.
Lamya’s father, Hassan Al-Atar, a civil defence officer told Amnesty International he headed to the scene of the attack with an ambulance and rescue team after a relative called him with news of the attack. “He told me that our home had been bombed and [he was] stuck under the rubble [with his] wife and children,” he said.
“I arrived at the house, which is made up of three stories – 20 people live there – I tried to find people, but I could not. Then the rescue team arrived to help and we eventually found my daughter, a mother of three, with her children, one of whom was a baby, under one of the cement pillars of the house; all of them were dead. The other residents seem to have managed to escape from an opening after the bombing and got to the hospital. I was shocked,” he said.
Nader Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Thom, from al-Salatin neighbourhood in Beit Lahia, described how his home where he lives with eight others was attacked without any warning shortly after midnight on 15 May.
“There was no warning missile, no warning call, the house was bombed, and we were inside. Thank God that the civil defence and by sheer chance was close by and saved us from under the rubble, thank God no one died. We had injuries but not serious, when we got out I saw a fire at the gate of the house, then the ambulance took us to the hospital. I think this is when I lost consciousness. Thank God no one was badly hurt but we lost our house. We are now in the street; we do not know where to go what to do.”
His family sought shelter at an UNRWA school but the school they arrived at was closed when they arrived and they had to sleep outside in the school yard. His entire home was destroyed including his clothes, money and paperwork and all their belongings.
In addition to residential homes, Israeli attacks have damaged water and electricity infrastructure as well as medical facilities and halted the operations of the North Gaza Seawater Desalination plant, which supplies water to more than 250,000 people.
Amnesty International has documented four deadly attacks by Israel launched on residential homes without prior warning and is calling for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently investigate these attacks. The death toll in Gaza continues to climb with at least 198 Palestinians killed including 58 children and more than 1,220 injured. Ten people in Israel, including two children, have been killed and at least 27 injured by Palestinian attacks.
“There is a horrific pattern emerging of Israel launching air strikes in Gaza targeting residential buildings and family homes – in some cases entire families were buried beneath the rubble when the buildings they lived in collapsed. In the cases documented below, no prior warning was given to the civilian residents to allow them to escape. Under international humanitarian law, all parties must distinguish between military targets and civilian objects and direct their attacks only at military objectives. When carrying out attacks, parties must take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians,” said Saleh Higazi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
Although the Israeli military has given no explanation of what military objectives it was targeting in these attacks, it is hard to imagine how bombing residential buildings full of civilian families without warning could be considered proportionate under international humanitarian law. It is not possible to use large explosive weapons, like aircraft bombs that have a blast radius of many hundreds of meters, in populated areas without anticipating major civilian casualties.
“By carrying out these brazen deadly attacks on family homes without warning Israel has demonstrated a callous disregard for lives of Palestinian civilians who are already suffering the collective punishment of Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza since 2007.”
The Israeli army claims that it only attacks military targets and has justified airstrikes on residential buildings on that basis. However, residents told Amnesty International that there were no fighters or military objectives in the vicinity at the time of the attacks documented.
“Deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian property and infrastructure are war crimes, as are disproportionate attacks. The International Criminal Court has an active investigation into the situation in Palestine and should urgently investigate these attacks as war crimes. States should also consider exercising universal jurisdiction over those who commit war crimes. Impunity only works to fuel the pattern of unlawful attacks and civilian bloodshed, which have we have repeatedly documented in previous Israeli military offensives on Gaza,” said Saleh Higazi.
At least 152 residential properties in Gaza have been destroyed since 11 May, according to the Gaza-based human rights organization, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, Israeli strikes have destroyed 94 buildings, comprising 461 housing and commercial units while 285 housing units have been severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable.
According to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) more than 2,500 people have been made homeless due to the destruction of their homes and more than 38,000 people have been internally displaced and have sought shelter in 48 UNRWA schools across Gaza.
Indiscriminate rocket-fire by Palestinian armed groups towards civilian areas of Israel has also killed and injured civilians and damaged homes and other civilian properties. The rockets fired from Gaza into Israel are imprecise and their use violates international humanitarian law which prohibits the use of weapons that are by nature indiscriminate. These attacks should also be investigated by the ICC as war crimes.
Amnesty International has previously published evidence that the Israeli military had a deliberate policy of targeting family homes during the 2014 conflict.
Devastating attacks on family homesIn one of the heaviest episodes of bombardment since the latest fighting began, between 1am and 2am on 16 May Israel carried out airstrikes against residential buildings and streets in Gaza City. The attacks completely destroyed two residential buildings belonging to the Abu al-Ouf and al-Kolaq families – killing 30 people – 11 of them children.
Gaza’s Ministry of Labour building was also destroyed in the attacks. The attack blocked al-Wehda Street, one of the main roads leading to the main hospital in Gaza, al-Shifa.
The families residing in the four-storey al-Ouf building, which included residential apartments and shops, received no prior warning – they were buried beneath the rubble in the attack.
Yousef Yassin, a medic from al-Shifa Hospital, was one of the first to arrive on the scene of al-Ouf Building after the attack and helped pull survivors from the wreckage with the Red Crescent. He described the scene to Amnesty International as one of “great destruction”.
I helped get out four dead [bodies], but there were many more. It was very hard. There was no warning, so people were inside their home sitting together, and this is a lively, bustling area,” he said.
Shortly before midnight on 14 May Israeli air strikes hit the three-storey building of the al-Atar family in Beit Lahia killing 28-year-old Lamya Hassan Mohammed Al-Atar her three children Islam, seven, Amira, six, and Mohammed an eight-month-old baby.
Lamya’s father, Hassan Al-Atar, a civil defence officer told Amnesty International he headed to the scene of the attack with an ambulance and rescue team after a relative called him with news of the attack. “He told me that our home had been bombed and [he was] stuck under the rubble [with his] wife and children,” he said.
“I arrived at the house, which is made up of three stories – 20 people live there – I tried to find people, but I could not. Then the rescue team arrived to help and we eventually found my daughter, a mother of three, with her children, one of whom was a baby, under one of the cement pillars of the house; all of them were dead. The other residents seem to have managed to escape from an opening after the bombing and got to the hospital. I was shocked,” he said.
Nader Mahmoud Mohammed Al-Thom, from al-Salatin neighbourhood in Beit Lahia, described how his home where he lives with eight others was attacked without any warning shortly after midnight on 15 May.
“There was no warning missile, no warning call, the house was bombed, and we were inside. Thank God that the civil defence and by sheer chance was close by and saved us from under the rubble, thank God no one died. We had injuries but not serious, when we got out I saw a fire at the gate of the house, then the ambulance took us to the hospital. I think this is when I lost consciousness. Thank God no one was badly hurt but we lost our house. We are now in the street; we do not know where to go what to do.”
His family sought shelter at an UNRWA school but the school they arrived at was closed when they arrived and they had to sleep outside in the school yard. His entire home was destroyed including his clothes, money and paperwork and all their belongings.
In addition to residential homes, Israeli attacks have damaged water and electricity infrastructure as well as medical facilities and halted the operations of the North Gaza Seawater Desalination plant, which supplies water to more than 250,000 people.
An 11-year old girl was killed, and a number of Palestinians were injured Wednesday night, in raids launched by the Israeli occupation warplanes on the northern and central Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a child, identified as Dima Sa’ad Asaliyya, 11, was killed after an Israeli missile struck her home on Al Sikka street in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
They added that at least five other Palestinians were injured.
According to a Ma’an News correspondent, during the last hour, Israeli aircraft launched several raids on the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and the camps of Nuseirat and Al-Bureij in the middle, which led to the death of the 11-year-old girl, Dima Saad Asalia, from Jabalia, and wounding five others, who were transported to the Indonesian and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospitals.
The bombing of Jabalia comes as just the latest airstrike of hundreds dropped in Gaza since May 10th. As of Wednesday May 19th, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has documented 213 Palestinians killed, including 61 children and 35 women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 958, including 291children and 206 women.
This number did not include the family that was wiped out Wednesday night in an airstrike on their home. The family consisted of a wheelchair-bound Palestinian man, his pregnant wife and their three year old daughter.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that a child, identified as Dima Sa’ad Asaliyya, 11, was killed after an Israeli missile struck her home on Al Sikka street in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
They added that at least five other Palestinians were injured.
According to a Ma’an News correspondent, during the last hour, Israeli aircraft launched several raids on the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and the camps of Nuseirat and Al-Bureij in the middle, which led to the death of the 11-year-old girl, Dima Saad Asalia, from Jabalia, and wounding five others, who were transported to the Indonesian and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospitals.
The bombing of Jabalia comes as just the latest airstrike of hundreds dropped in Gaza since May 10th. As of Wednesday May 19th, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has documented 213 Palestinians killed, including 61 children and 35 women, and the number of those wounded has risen to 958, including 291children and 206 women.
This number did not include the family that was wiped out Wednesday night in an airstrike on their home. The family consisted of a wheelchair-bound Palestinian man, his pregnant wife and their three year old daughter.
