Israel marks 1 year of Gaza genocide with killing 42 more Palestinians

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - On the first anniversary of Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army continued its deadly strikes on Monday, killing 42 Palestinians across the devastated enclave.

According to a statement by the Gaza Civil Defense, the Israeli army killed three Palestinians and injured six others in an airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source told Anadolu that a Palestinian girl was killed as a result of the Israeli artillery shelling of Abasan town.

In Rafah city, eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home. Another Palestinian woman was killed in an airstrike on a home in the Khirbet Al-Adas area in northern Rafah.

In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in two Israeli strikes, according to medical source in the Al-Ahli Baptist hospital.

Four more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Saftawi area in northern Gaza City, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

In Beit Lahia town, four Palestinians, including women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home.

A medical source said a Palestinian woman was killed by bullets fired from an Israeli quadcopter drone, and five others were killed in an airstrike on a gathering of people in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip.

Also in Jabalia, a medical source told Anadolu that 13 Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Abu Qamar area.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 42,000 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 97,300 others injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar

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