Earlier Sunday, Israeli missiles and shells continued to strike civilian areas of the Gaza Strip, hitting dozens of homes and buildings, including media facilities, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including women and children.
In Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the army killed at least two Palestinians and injured many others after firing missiles and shells in the western part of the city.
At least three Palestinians were killed and many injured in an Israeli bombing of the Japanese neighborhood west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian father and his child were killed by an Israeli missile east of Khan Younis after the army targeted Palestinians trying to fill some gallons with drinking water.
Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least nineteen Palestinians, including children and women, in several parts of Khan Younis.
In the Al-Boreij refugee and the Nusseirat refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, the army fired many missiles and shells at homes and buildings, killing at least five Palestinians, including a woman and a child, and wounding dozens.
The army also fired shells at a home for the Hamad family in Nusseirat and a home in the Zawaida area in central Gaza, killing more than 40 Palestinians, including women and children, while many remain buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings.
In addition, the army fired shells at homes in the Shati’ refugee camp, west of Gaza City, killing at least six Palestinians and wounding many others.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, the corpses of dozens of slain Palestinians were found in several neighborhoods after the Israeli tanks and soldiers withdrew from the area and redeployed around it.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, at least twelve Palestinians from the Al-Barsh family were killed and dozens injured by Israeli missiles and shells.
The Israeli army also bombed the Al-Aqsa Satellite TV and News Agency and destroyed it; thirteen Palestinians who work for the news agency have been killed since October 7.
In addition, the army bombed the building of Palestine Satellite TV, Shawwa, and Hosary Tower, which houses several Arab media agencies, including Al-Manar TV, Al-Quds Today Satellite TV, and Al-Quds Radio.
It is noteworthy that Israel bombed the office of the Maan News Agency on the first day of the Israeli onslaught when the army bombed Watan Tower in Gaza.
Israeli missiles and shells destroyed more than 55.000 residential units and homes in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, said its fighters fired many mortar shells at soldiers who gathered near a mosque east of Khan Younis.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters fired shells at two Israeli tanks and soldiers in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.
Three soldiers were killed, and two were seriously injured when a shell struck their vehicle, while at least ten soldiers were killed, three seriously, when Palestinian fighters detonated a home where the soldiers barricaded themselves during the gunbattles.
In addition, the director of Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital in Rafah said dozens of Palestinians who fled to the city are suffering various infectious diseases, smallpox, skin conditions, and various abdominal and intestinal diseases.
He added that the army released twenty of the detained Palestinians who were moved to the hospital, suffering various bruises, fractures, and other signs of extreme torture.
On its part, the Israeli army said eight soldiers were killed in battles with Palestinian fighters in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, and on Saturday, the army said five soldiers were killed.
The soldiers who were killed were from the Combat Engineering Corps; at least 44 Israeli soldiers have been injured.
The number of Israeli soldiers who were killed since October 7 has reached 485, including 156 killed since the ground invasion of Gaza began on October 27.
In the opening of the weekly meeting of the Israeli government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fight in Gaza is causing enormous losses, especially after the deaths of the soldiers over the last two days.
He added that the decision to continue or stop the war is only in Israel’s hands and the evaluations of its military and added that no government or any foreign entity can dictate that decision.
Netanyahu stated he informed U.S. President Joe Biden that “Israel will fight until victory,” adding that “Biden understands the Israeli position.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the Israeli missiles and shells have killed 201 Palestinians and injured at least 368 in the Gaza Strip in less than twenty-four hours.
The Health Ministry added that Israeli has now killed at least 20.258 Palestinians, including 8200 children, 6200 women, 375 medical staff, including doctors, nurses, medics, and Civil Defense volunteers, and more than 100 journalists, and injured at least 53.688 Palestinians in the coastal region since October 7. More than %70 of the slain and wounded Palestinians are women and children.
At least 7000 Palestinians, %70 of whom are children and women, remain either buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, or their fate and location are unknown due to the intensity of the Israeli bombing and shelling.
