At least 22 Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 22 people were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to medical sources.

An Israeli raid targeted a group of civilians in the Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, killing five people, while two more people lost their lives in an Israeli strike on a house west of Gaza City, witnesses said.

Medical sources at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital confirmed that the bodies of seven people had been transferred to the hospital after the Israeli attacks.

Two more Palestinians, including a child, were killed and seven others injured, including four children, when Israeli fighter jets hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the medical sources said.

An Israeli drone also struck a house east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, leaving six people dead and several others injured, the same sources said.

Three more people were killed after an Israeli strike on a civilian car near the European Hospital in Khan Younis, another medical source said.

A mother and her child were also killed in an Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, while another civilian was killed in Israeli shelling east of the city, the same source said.

A young man also died of injuries sustained from Israeli army fire near the Nitsarim crossing in the central Gaza Strip, the source said.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack last October by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 92,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Over ten months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala