Gaza: 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and new incursion into central Rafah

Eleven Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday in separate Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, while Israeli vehicles again penetrated the center of the southern city of Rafah.

A medical source told the Anadolu Agency correspondent that 4 dead and 15 wounded people arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Al-Hakr area in the city of Deir al-Balah (central).

The source indicated that a number of other Palestinians were injured as a result of an Israeli raid in the vicinity of Al-Baraka Street in the same city.

In Khan Yunis (south), a medical source at the European Gaza Hospital told the Anadolu Agency correspondent that 4 people had been killed as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house north of Rafah.

Two Palestinians were also killed in Israeli artillery shelling of the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis, according to statements made by Palestinian paramedics to an Anadolu Agency correspondent.

A Palestinian was also killed and another was injured when an Israeli quadcopter fired at citizens in the vicinity of Tabat al-Nuwairi, west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to a local source.

Israeli artillery stationed in the Netzarim axis south of Gaza City shelled the Sheikh Ajlin and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods southwest of the city, in conjunction with gunfire from helicopters south of Tal al-Hawa, according to eyewitnesses to the Anadolu Agency correspondent.

Witnesses added that the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, witnessed violent explosions, artillery shelling, and gunfire from Israeli vehicles in the areas of penetration into the neighborhood, while Israeli helicopters opened fire in the southeastern areas.

Israeli artillery shelling was also renewed in the vicinity of the Islamic Complex and Abu Sharia Square in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, without any reported casualties.

The Israeli army carried out bombing operations against citizens' homes in the vicinity of the university college in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of the city, according to witnesses.

In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli vehicles again penetrated the vicinity of the Arab schools north of Rafah city, amidst heavy gunfire and artillery shelling in the Shaboura camp and the Al-Janina neighborhood in the center and east of the city, according to local sources for the Anadolu Agency correspondent.

The same sources added that the Israeli army continued its operations of bombing and destroying residential buildings east and west of Rafah city, where the sounds of violent explosions were heard in Khan Yunis Governorate in the south.

Last May, the Israeli army announced the start of a large-scale military operation in Rafah, which is crowded with displaced people, despite international warnings about the repercussions of this. It took control of the city’s border crossing with Egypt and prevented the entry of aid and the movement of patients and wounded to receive treatment abroad, which exacerbated the humanitarian situation in the besieged sector for 18 years.

With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, leaving more than 137,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.

In contempt of the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.

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