At least 16 Palestinians, including 9 children, were killed before dawn today, Sunday April 21, as a result of raids carried out by Israeli warplanes and artillery that targeted many homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
In the latest events on the 198th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation army bombed several areas in the Strip, causing numerous Palestinians to be killed and wounded.
Correspondents with the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that 8 citizens, including 5 children and 2 women, were martyred in Israeli raids on two homes in the city of Rafah.
Also, 5 Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed, and others were injured, in a bombing that targeted a house on George Street, east of Rafah.
Palestinian rescue teams are tirelessly working to free Palestinians trapped under rubble after an Israeli occupation airstrike hit their homes this morning in Rafah.
The airstrike has reportedly killed 15 Palestinian civilians, including children and women. pic.twitter.com/BgI4mYbUEW
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 21, 2024
JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Israel launches airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/j0T8ByvljT
— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) April 21, 2024
Earlier tonight, 3 Palestinian civilians (mother, father and young child) were killed as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Shaboura camp in the center of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip explained that a man, his child, and his pregnant wife were killed as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house for the Joudeh family in the Shaboura camp in the center of Rafah, and a number of others, most of them children, were injured in the occupation aircraft’s bombing of their house in the camp.
In this context, the Civil Defense announced that it had recovered the bodies of 50 martyrs who were buried en masse by the Israeli occupation forces inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis .
A video shows an Israeli commander telling his unit that they “are going to Rafah and will blow Palestinians away”. The video circulated on Hebrew social media outlets and is purportedly of Dotan Malol, commander of Battalion 932 in the Nahal Brigade. pic.twitter.com/3jelAou59x
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) April 21, 2024
Rafah was bombed last night. These are the babies who survived Israeli bombs.
This has been a Genocide from day one. pic.twitter.com/AIgJUPRyrc
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) April 21, 2024
Medical sources had announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 34,049 martyrs, the majority of whom were children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on the seventh of last October, while the injury toll had risen to 76,901 since the start of the aggression, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble.
