Ahmed Gouda
20 November 2023•Update: 20 November 2023
GAZA CITY, Palestine
Israeli aircraft early Monday launched a series of intense raids in the northwest of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of people.
Local sources reported to the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli warplanes fired dozens of missiles at the residential city of Hamad, northwest of Khan Yunis, killing dozens of citizens, most of them children and women, and injuring others. The Israeli forces also raided the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
The sources also told Wafa: “The occupation army fired live bullets directly at the Indonesian Hospital, which was crowded with wounded people. A number of citizens were injured, including a doctor.”
According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli bombing led to "a power outage at the hospital after its generators stopped working."
The agency noted that the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip was also bombed, and a home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City was hit with several missiles, wounding a number of citizens who were taken to the Indonesian Hospital.
A number of citizens were killed and others injured as a result of an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the Asqoula area in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Another bombing in the Al-Sabra neighborhood left dozens of citizens trapped under the rubble.
On Sunday evening, warplanes targeted several homes in the north, center, and south of the Gaza Strip, leading to the death and injury of dozens of people.
According to Wafa: “The occupation aircraft bombed several houses within a residential square in Jabalia al-Balad and the (Jabalia) camp in the north of the Gaza Strip…which led to the martyrdom and injury of dozens of citizens, including children and women.”
“The number of martyrs in the Israeli raids on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip rose to 22, in addition to injury to others after the occupation aircraft bombed homes near the Khalid bin Al-Walid School,” the news agency said.
The aircraft also launched airstrikes east of Khan Yunis Governorate, bombing a house in Bani Suhaila.
This comes as the Israeli army continues to launch daily raids on the southern Gaza Strip, despite declaring it a "safe zone" in order to push residents in the northern Gaza Strip to flee there.
The government media office in Gaza has repeatedly reported the presence of hundreds of bodies on roads towards the south of the Strip that Israel declared "safe."
Since Israel started bombarding Gaza on Oct. 7, at least 13,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 9,000 women and children, and more than 30,000 others have been injured, according to the latest figures.
Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques, and churches, have also been damaged or destroyed in Israel’s relentless air and ground attacks on the besieged enclave.
An Israeli blockade has also cut Gaza off from fuel, electricity, and water supplies, and reduced aid deliveries to a small trickle.
The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.
