By Mohammed Majed
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Several Palestinians were killed and injured, including women and children, in Israeli airstrikes that targeted refugee camps in Rafah city and other areas of the Gaza Strip on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday.
Five Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling of displaced people's tents in the Al-Mawasi area west of Rafah city, paramedics told Anadolu.
Eyewitnesses also reported that the Israeli army bombed and destroyed dozens of houses in the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery and jets continued to target several areas in Rafah, particularly the Tel Sultan neighborhood west of the city, according to the witnesses.
Israeli tanks are stationed along the Philadelphi Corridor, the border zone between Rafah and Egypt, and in all areas south of the city, including most of its eastern, central and western areas.
In the central Gaza Strip, witnesses reported that Israeli artillery and warplanes targeted various areas north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, resulting in casualties who were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza.
They also noted that Israeli drones fired intensively toward civilians' homes northwest of Nuseirat.
An Anadolu correspondent in Gaza City reported that Israeli artillery targeted the eastern areas of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the southeast of the city, causing damage to homes, some of which caught fire.
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 Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.
More than 37,350 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and more than 85,400 others injured, according to local health authorities.
Over eight 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, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul