Update 2 – 11:59 pm Sunday: Additional Israeli airstrikes continued through the afternoon and evening on Sunday, killing and wounding many more Palestinians.

A number of civilians were killed and injured on Sunday evening in an Israeli bombardment on Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of Palestinians in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, which led to a number of people killed and many other wounded.

The Israeli occupation artillery also bombed Al-Shaboura neighborhood and the vicinity of Al-Awda roundabout in the center of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In the late afternoon, a Palestinian was killed and others were injured on Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.

A correspondent with the Wafa news agency reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom of at least one citizen and the injury of others.

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Result of bombing in Rafah - image from Wafa newsOn Sunday, Israeli forces continued their week-long bombing campaign of Palestinian refugee camps, which has included aerial bombardment as well as tanks rolling in to shoot at and crush displaced Palestinian civilians who have fled multiple times following Israeli instructions.

Each time the Palestinian civilian population has been forcibly displaced, Israeli forces have assaulted them, leaving no safe place in the entire Gaza Strip.

Several Palestinians were killed and injured when the army fired a missile at an apartment in a residential building near the Al-Emla market in Gaza City.

At least seven civilians were killed, and others were injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house west of Rafah and another in Al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City, on the 268th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Also, an Israeli drone fired a missile at Palestinian medics trying to rescue bombarded Palestinians, west of Rafah city.

According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house for the Zorob family, west of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, killing 6 civilians, including children, and wounding others.

WAFA also reported that the Israeli occupation artillery bombed the southern areas of the city of Rafah, wounding a number of civilians, while also targeting another in the center of Rafah.

Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard in the Tal Al-Sultan and Al-Saudi neighborhoods, west of the city of Rafah.

The Israeli army also killed fired shells at the Shakoush area, northwestern of Rafah, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding many others.

Medical sources have confirmed that the army fired a missile at a home for the Zo’rob family, in the western area of Rafah, killing at least six Palestinians, and wounding many others, and added that the medics and the locals are searching under the rubble.

Furthermore, many Israeli tanks invaded the Al-Barazil neighborhood in Rafah and fired many artillery shells while bulldozers destroyed structures.

The Israeli tanks and armored vehicles were also seen stationed in several areas, west of Rafah, especially in the southwestern areas, before firing shells and live rounds towards a number of areas.

In addition, the Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at the towns of Abasan and Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis.

Israeli Navy ships also fired missiles and live rounds at Al-Mawasi, where dozens of displaced families are sheltering

A civilian was killed, and others were injured in a bombing by Israeli occupation warplanes that targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City, amid continuing violent raids on the area.

The Israeli occupation artillery shelled citizens’ homes in the vicinity of Barcelona Park in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, with smoke rising from the area.

In addition, Israeli occupation warplanes launched violent raids on the Al-Tuffah and Al-Sheja’eyya neighborhoods, east of Gaza City, and the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the city, in conjunction with the occupation’s artillery shelling of Palestinian homes in the Al-Sheja’eyya neighborhood, which led to the death and injury of a number of citizens, and the paramedics were unable to reach them as a result of the continuous shooting from the Israeli military.

A correspondent with the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli occupation vehicles that penetrated the Sheja’eyya neighborhood are besieging a number of families inside their homes around the Martyrs’ Mosque, in conjunction with heavy gunfire from drones.

The Israeli army said Brigade 98, in cooperation with the Airforce, attacked infrastructure and various buildings in Sheja’eyya.

Since Thursday, the Israel army has intensified its air strikes and bombing on Sheja’eyya, and exchanged fired with Palestinian fighters more then 40 times.

In addition, the head of the Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, said the medical facility is running out of fuel for its electricity generators, and could stop provided services at any given time if supplies were not delivered.

The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on land, sea and air against the Gaza Strip since the 7th of last October, resulting in the killing of at least 37,834 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women (about 15.000 children), and the injury of 86,858 others. The actual toll is likely much higher, especially given the announcement this week that as many as 20,000 children are reportedly missing and are likely killed under the rubble, but unable to be found.

First Published on: Jun 30, 2024, at 10:21