Israel carries out further airstrikes on Gaza Strip
The Israeli army again fired airstrikes and artillery shells into the Gaza Strip on Monday, after dozens of people were killed over the weekend in bombings of a refugee camp and a school where civilians had sought shelter.
Eyewitnesses and aid workers reported artillery fire in several neighbourhoods in Gaza City on Monday. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, an attack on Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the centre of the Gaza Strip, left five people dead and three wounded. Witnesses spoke of artillery fire on the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the same district.
On Sunday, 15 people were killed in the bombing of a school run by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, in Nuseirat, where thousands of displaced people were staying, according to civil protection authorities. The Israeli army declared it had attacked “terrorists”. On Saturday, at least 90 people were killed in an attack on a refugee camp in the south of the country.
Helicopters shelled the area of Khan Younis and Rafah on Monday, witnesses said.
The Israeli army reported on Sunday that it had “eliminated a terror cell armed with rocket launchers” near Rafah. “Numerous terrorists” were eliminated, it said.
The Palestinian extremist movement Hamas announced its withdrawal from indirect negotiations through countries acting as mediators on Sunday. It denounced “massacres against unarmed civilians” by Israel in the Palestinian territories.
According to the Palestinian Health ministry, controlled by Hamas, a total of 38,664 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October. More than 89,000 people have been injured.
A Palestinian youth walks past piles of smouldering waste at the al-Maghazi Palestinian refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, 15 July 2024 © PHOTO EYAD BABA / AFP
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