PALESTINE
Sun 05 Nov 2023 7:36 am - Jerusalem Time
51 killed in an Israeli bombing on Al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that an Israeli bombing of the Maghazi camp in central Gaza City had claimed the lives of 51 people, after a new announcement of the arrival of nearly 20 more bodies.
The agency reported that the bombing targeted the home of the Semaan family in the camp, and that the majority of those killed were women and children. And added that Israeli air strikes and ground and sea shelling targeted various areas of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Saturday evening that the death toll from Israeli attacks on the Strip had risen to 9,488, including 3,900 children, since October 7.
Spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra added that 70 percent of the victims of the Israeli bombing are children, women and the elderly, and that there were more than a thousand massacres committed against Palestinian families.
In turn, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that it had received 30 trucks loaded with aid through the Rafah crossing, raising the number of aid that had arrived in the Gaza Strip since October 21 to 451 trucks.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that the International Committee of the Red Cross received three trucks sent to it, while 19 trucks went to the UN agency UNRWA, in addition to eight trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The statement said that the new batch of aid contains four trucks containing medical supplies and medicines, while the rest of the trucks carried food, water, and relief aid.
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51 killed in an Israeli bombing on Al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza