'Israel' bombs Gaza, massacring 436 people including 91 children

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
9 Oct 2023 10:06
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Residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip have been subjected to relentless bombardments by Israeli occupation forces, resulting in a devastating toll of massacred civilians.

Fire and smoke rise from residential buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City (AP)

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported, on Monday, that the Israeli occupation carried out intense airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting civilian homes and several mosques.

Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 436 citizens were martyred, including 91 children and 61 women, in addition to 2,271 wounded, including 244 children and 151 women due to the Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza.

Earlier, Al Mayadeen correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces waged brutal and indiscriminate airstrikes on the Gaza Strip using thermobaric weapons not to mention phosphorus bombs, which are banned under international law,

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that 1,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on Gaza so far.

This is a war crime: Israeli forces are using internationally prohibited white phosphorus on heavily populated districts in the north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/7VnteZsiFj
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) October 9, 2023

'Israel' is intentionally wiping out entire Palestinian families

The Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre early Monday in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, by bombarding residential buildings, murdering an entire family in the Strip's south in cold blood.

As a result of the occupation's extensive shelling, scores of casualties were reported between martyrs and the wounded.

Reports suggest that there are at least 11 martyrs and five wounded, as a result of an air raid that targeted a residential building in Khan Yunis.

11-year-old Tala Abu Daqqa from #Gaza.

Her entire family was wiped out by merciless Israeli missiles. pic.twitter.com/L2zdw9y57B
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) October 9, 2023

Airstrikes were renewed in the northeastern and northwestern areas of the Gaza Strip, while civil defense teams faced significant challenges in rescuing the injured from under the rubble of targeted houses and locations.

The Israeli occupation warplanes targeted residential homes, mosques, and public institutions throughout the night, launching violent and indiscriminate airstrikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation forces also conducted violent airstrikes on a home in Beit Lahia, as well as the Karama area and al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

Another series of air raids targeted a house in the Musabah area in Rafah, with another afflicting the Sheikh Ahmad Yassin mosque in al-Shati' refugee camp west of Gaza, which caused material damage to neighboring homes.

Martyr Ibrahim Hamdan's family home in the Tel al-Zaatar district of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip was attacked, causing damage to numerous adjacent houses and leaving the fate of its members unknown.

Moreover, the first respondents were able to transfer several injuries and martyrs from the Shati refugee camp after the Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Mosque was targeted, and another group of injuries and martyrs were transferred due to the targeting of a house in Tel al-Zaatar.

Airstrikes are ongoing in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. Due to the intense airstrikes, ambulance teams were unable to reach the areas targeted in Beit Hanoun, while several main roads had been destroyed as a result of Israeli bombardment.