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Fri 23 Feb 2024 9:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

War on Gaza: A new Israeli massacre in Deir al-Balah leaves 24 killed

At least 24 citizens were killed and others were injured, this Friday evening, in a new massacre committed by the Israeli army in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.


Local sources reported that 24 citizens were killed and others were injured, the majority of them children and women, as a result of the Israeli aircraft bombing a house for the Abu Zuaiter family in the Bishara neighborhood in Deir al-Balah.


The bodies of the dead and the wounded were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city, while ambulance and rescue crews continued attempts to extract the victims from under the rubble of the house.


The Israeli aircraft also bombed a house north of Al-Maghazi camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, wounding a number of citizens. A number of citizens were injured, some of them critically, in an Israeli raid that targeted them near the “Al-Shallal” cafeteria on the shore of the Nuseirat Sea. The Israeli aircraft opened heavy fire on the town of Al-Mughraqa, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, and the Israeli aircraft and its artillery bombed Khirbet Al-Adas, north of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and a house. Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.


The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that the Israeli forces targeted the vicinity of its Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, causing major damage to the hospital facilities.


It indicated that for the fourth time, its crews carried out the mission of evacuating the wounded from the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis after it was out of service, in coordination with the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in which 4 ambulances participated and evacuated 18 wounded, including two newborn girls who were missing. Their mother, and the cases were transferred to the International Medical Corps field hospitals, the Indonesian field hospital in Rafah Governorate, the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Yunis, in addition to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.


The number of killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has risen to 29,514 people, in addition to 69,616 wounded, in an infinite toll.

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War on Gaza: A new Israeli massacre in Deir al-Balah leaves 24 killed