A family of three: father, toddler and pregnant mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Shaboura camp in the center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The mother was in her ninth month of pregnancy, and although she was killed in the bombing, along with her husband and older child, doctors managed to save the life of the baby.
The airstrike targeted a house for the Joudeh family in the Shaboura camp in the center of the city of Rafah. In addition to the family that was killed, a number of others, most of them children, were injured in the occupation aircraft’s bombing of their house in the Shaboura camp in the city of Rafah.
Earlier Saturday, two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured as a result of the occupation warplanes’ bombing of the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two young men were killed, and 10 others were injured, as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house adjacent to the tents of the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis, and Israeli warships targeted the northwestern areas of the city of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli occupation artillery also bombed agricultural land, targeting agricultural land on the entrance street to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
On Saturday, medical sources 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, adding that the total number of wounded has risen to 76,901 since the start of the aggression, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.
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Day 197 in Gaza: Israeli Bombs Continue to Rain Down
Apr 20, 2024 at 11:41
Israeli forces continued their assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the 197th straight day of the Israeli attack on the entire civilian population of 2.4 million Palestinians living in the besieged and imprisoned Gaza Strip.
A correspondent with the Palestinian Wafa News agency reported that the death toll rose after the occupation aircraft targeted a house of the Radwan family, in the neighborhood of Tel Al-Sultan in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Nine family members were killed, including 6 children and women.
As a result of the bombing by the occupation planes, a house near the eastern cemetery east of the city of Rafah, and at least one missile targeted two ground in the Barahmah and Al-Aawt neighborhoods, and his artillery fired a number of shells towards the border areas of the city.
The occupation artillery also fired several shells at the Al-Zaytoun and Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, and launched a raid on a house in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City.
The occupation planes destroyed a residential square in the Dawa neighborhood north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, belonging to the families of Al-Gharabli, Al-Nabaheen, Abu Marahil, Al-Sayed and Al-Qass.
Israeli naval boats fired their machine gunfire towards the shore of the sea of the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
Israel has now killed at least 34.012 Palestinians, and injured more than 78.833, mostly children and women, in several parts of the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
