Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Kills over 40
PALESTINE – At least 40 Palestinians were on Monday killed and dozens others injured in continued Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip.
A medical source said that three people were killed in an Israeli strike on two houses in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, while three others lost their lives after a drone hit their tent in the same area.
In northern Gaza City, Israeli fighter jets struck a home for a Palestinian family on Al-Yarmouk Street, resulting in the death of five civilians.
Four more people were killed in a strike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the city’s west.
Separately, a helicopter targeted a residential unit in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, killing two siblings. A number of injuries were reported from a similar attack on a residential building in central Gaza City.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued to blow up homes and buildings using booby-trapped robots in the vicinity of Sheikh Radwan pond in northern Gaza, coinciding with air strikes on the area, while Israeli quadcopters dropped explosive bombs on the roofs of civilian homes, causing a state of panic among residents.
On Aug. 8, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, beginning with Gaza City. The plan involves displacing around 1 million Palestinians southward, surrounding the city, and occupying it after intense attacks.
In the central Gaza Strip, five people were killed and 22 injured when the Israeli army shelled civilians in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Three people, two of them siblings, were also killed, and seven others wounded in an Israeli strike on tents in a refugee camp in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The army claimed on Saturday to have designated Al-Mawasi a humanitarian zone, calling on Gaza City residents to evacuate to it.
