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Published: August 18, 2024
Dozens of Palestinians were martyred, including children and women, and others were injured today, Sunday, in shelling that targeted various areas of the Gaza Strip, focusing on the central region, on the 317th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the strip.
Local sources reported that the warplanes of the occupation targeted an apartment on Al-Mazra'a Street in the city of Deir al-Balah, leading to the martyrdom of 7 people, including a mother and her six children, according to the Palestinian News and Information Agency "Wafa."
It added that the occupation aircraft targeted a house in the Al-Nuseirat camp in the center of the strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of 4 citizens and injuries to dozens.
In Gaza City, military equipment of the occupation unleashed heavy gunfire towards homes in the neighborhoods of Al-Sabra and Al-Zeitoun, coinciding with intense artillery shelling on the two neighborhoods and air raids from the occupation's warplanes.
Red Crescent paramedics transported a martyr and several injuries after the warplanes of the occupation bombed a house in Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City to Al-Mu'min Hospital in the city.
Eyewitnesses mentioned that a drone of the "Kwadir Kapter" model dropped an explosive bomb around the Al-Iman Mosque in Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.
Wafa agency reported that rescue teams recovered the bodies of 4 martyrs along with several wounded, due to the bombing of the occupation's warplanes that targeted two residential apartments belonging to the Tabal and Abu Qara' families in the Al-Zayan building on Al-Houja Street in Jabalia camp in the north of the strip.
It added that the occupation aircraft bombed a house in Abasan Al-Kabira town east of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom of 4 people and injuries to 6 others.
Occupation artillery shelled several areas west of Rafah city in the south of the strip, amidst heavy gunfire in the area.
The occupation forces continue their aggression against the Gaza Strip, on land, sea, and air, since October 7th, resulting in the martyrdom of 40,074 Palestinians and injuries to 92,537 others, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble and in the streets, and rescue teams are unable to reach them.
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