On Wednesday, the Israeli army expanded its offensive and ground invasion of Rafah and fired barrages of missiles and shells at tall buildings in several parts of the city, in the southmost area of the destroyed and besieged Gaza Strip. Mass graves found in Shifa Medical Center In Gaza City.
The army fired missiles and shells at buildings and homes in the area between the City Council in Rafah, the Al-Awda Junction in the center of the city, and the Najma Square at the main entrance of the Shaboura refugee camp.
Furthermore, the army fired many artillery shells and missiles at the area of the former building of the Al-Quds Open University.
The army also fired many tanks shells and missiles at the Shouka area, the most densely populated in Rafah.
In addition, the army fired many shells at tents and make-shift shelters that were used by the displaced families in Rafah, before they fled the area.
Hundreds of Palestinian cars and trucks were seen leaving the eastern areas of Rafah, to reach the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis and in some cases, Deir Al-Balah, although the areas they are fleeing to have been severely bombed and destroyed during the ongoing Israel onslaught on Gaza.
According to sources at the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah, the only hospital that is still operational, although partially, at least 35 slain Palestinians and 129 wounded, were moved to the medical facility.
The Israeli army also continued the closure of the Rafah Border Terminal with Egypt, after its tanks and armored vehicles destroyed it, and occupied it.
It is worth mentioning that, after the Israeli army destroyed various parts of the Rafah Border Terminal and completely occupied it, a day earlier, all humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the border crossing ceased, which also means that all patients and seriously wounded Palestinians are unable to leave the Gaza Strip.
In Gaza City, medics, medical staff, and locals located, on Wednesday afternoon, the corpses of 49 Palestinians in a third mass grave inside the Shifa Hospital, west of the city.
Medical sources said the Palestinians are still looking for more slain Palestinians in the mass graves, and added that the number of found mass graves inside Gaza’s hospitals is seven; one in Kamal Adwan Hospital, three in the Shifa Medical Center, and three in Nasser Medical Center, with more than 520 slain Palestinians found in them, and many more are still to be found.
It is worth mentioning that in October of last year, 2023, after the army bombarded, invaded, and withdrew from Nasser Medical Center in Khan Younis, the Palestinians found the corpses of 395 Palestinians.
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Medical sources said that, over the last 24 hours, the Israeli army committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 55 and wounding more than 200.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army has now killed more than 34.844, including more than 14.873 children and 9.801 women, in addition to the thousands who remain under the rubble, on destroyed streets and in alleys, and injured at least 78.404, most of whom are women and children, in several parts of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
