GAZA, (The Palestine Information Centre)For the 11th consecutive day, Israel’s massive carnage continues to claim more lives in the Gaza Strip as its army persists in bombing more homes and neighborhoods and massacring civilians, amid acute water and fuel shortages and a struggling healthcare system and packed hospitals.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army concentrated its attacks in the morning on Khan Yunis and Rafah, south of Gaza.
The PIC reporter pointed out that many bombed homes in southern Gaza were housing displaced families who fled from the north and other areas.
According to Palestinian news reports, casualties were reported in Bani Suhaila area, east of Khan Yunis, after the Israeli army bombed a house belonging to the family of al-Qahwaji.
Earlier in the morning, over 75 civilians were massacred and dozens were injured when Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on homes in Khan Yunis and Rafah.
For its part, the interior ministry in Gaza said that Israeli aerial attacks destroyed several homes in Khan Yunis, killing at least 23 civilians and injuring 50 others from different families.
28 other citizens were also massacred when a warplane reduced a house in Rafah to rubble over the heads of its residents, while the PIC reporter said that more airstrikes targeted nearby homes in the same area as other citizens were searching for missing people under the ruins of the bombed house.
Later, 21 martyrs were evacuated to Nasser Hospital following an airstrike on a house belonging to the family of al-Jabri in al-Emirati neighborhood in Khan Yunis.
An unknown number of martyrs and wounded citizens were also reported after a warplane bombed the house of Abu Amr family near the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis.
At dawn, an air raid on a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza claimed the lives of seven citizens and wounded 12 others.
Several casualties were also reported during Israeli air raids on two houses in Gaza City and al-Saftawi area, north of the Strip.
Last night, one citizen was martyred and others were injured following an Israeli attack on an apartment in Sheikh Hamad City in Khan Yunis.
According to the Government Media Office in Gaza last night, the death toll in Gaza climbed to 2,808 martyrs and the number of the injured to 10,850 as the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb different areas of Gaza on Monday. Most of the casualties are children and women.
