This Thursday morning, more than 20 citizens were killed, and dozens were injured, by Israeli forces, west of Gaza City.

According to local sources, the Israeli forces opened machine-gun fire towards thousands of citizens from the northern Gaza Strip, specifically from Gaza City, Jabalia and Beit Hanoun. They were waiting for trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to arrive at the “Harun al-Rashid” coastal road in the Sheikh Ajlin area, west of Gaza City. This led to More than 20 of them were killed and dozens injured.

The sources added that large numbers of wounded were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital, indicating that these numbers exceed the capacity of the medical staff to deal with these cases. A number of the bodies of the dead and the injured were also transferred to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City and Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

In the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, Israeli aircraft bombed entire residential squares on the heads of their residents, resulting in dozens of killed and wounded, while ambulances and civil defense vehicles were unable to reach the targeted area due to the intensity of the bombing.