Ten martyrs, including children, in Israeli attack on Rafah home

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
13 Jan 2024 09:25

The Israeli occupation continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip, launching raids on the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, and the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces take up positions during a raid in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Wednesday, January 10. 2024. (AP)

At least ten Palestinians, including children, were martyred, and others were injured, in an airstrike by Israeli occupation aircraft on a house sheltering internally displaced people east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The occupation's artillery also targeted the al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps, along with the town of al-Zawaida. Additionally, occupation aircraft launched raids on Salah al-Din Street and near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, situated in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Ambulance and rescue crews recovered the bodies of two martyrs from al-Qudra Street in Khan Younis, located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The bodies were then transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex.

Israeli occupation aircraft also conducted raids on the town of Bani Suheila, situated east of Khan Younis, and targeted areas southeast of the governorate. The al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City was also bombed, resulting in several wounded individuals who were subsequently transported to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

According to Gaza's Ministry of Health on Saturday, at least 23,469 Palestinians have been killed and 59,604 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7.

In a recent report, IOF carried out ten mass killings in the Gaza Strip, causing 112 deaths and 194 injuries, the Ministry added. About 7,000 people remain missing under the rubble and are presumed dead.

Deadliest war in history

On that note, the war on Gaza is now considered one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history, according to experts in mapping damage during wartime.

The war has killed more people than the US-led coalition did in its alleged three-year campaign against ISIS (also known as ISIL or Daesh), according to an analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by the CUNY Graduate Center and Oregon State University.

In addition, according to a report by the Associated Press, researchers found that the aggression on Gaza has wreaked more destruction than the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II, to cite an example.

According to satellite data, it has likely either damaged or destroyed more than two-thirds of all structures in Northern Gaza and a quarter of buildings in the Southern area of Khan Younis, including tens of thousands of homes and schools, hospitals, mosques, and stores.