A Palestinian mourns his relative, a child of Rewan Ghanem, killed in an Israeli bombardment on a residential building owned by the Ghanem family in Bureij refugee camp, at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. AP
Warplanes struck Gaza City and camps located in central Gaza including the Al-Zaytoun, Sabra, Sheikh Radwan, and Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhoods in Gaza City, and the Nuseirat, Al-Maghazi, and Al-Bureij camps, according to WAFA.
The Mhanna family home in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan was leveled by Israeli airstrikes, killing 14 residents, according to WAFA.
Palestinian Civil defence teams retrieved five bodies, including children and women, from the destroyed home.
Israeli artillery struck a house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip killed six Palestinians and injured others, according to WAFA.
Artillery and machine guns also targeted the area east of the refugee camp.
On Friday, strikes targeted various areas across the Gaza Strip, including refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip.
A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said the Isa family home near a medical centre in the Bureij refugee camp was targeted, leaving several wounded.
Witnesses also confirmed Israeli strikes in the east of Deir Al-Balah, as well as intensive fire from Israeli army vehicles east of the Bureij camp, where a blaze raged at a roundabout.
In Gaza City, casualties were reported from an Israeli missile strike on the Ashram family home near Al-Salam mosque, according to a medical source at Baptist Hospital.
Six people were killed and several wounded in an Israeli strike on the Wafati home in Maghazi camp, said a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
An Israeli strike early Thursday on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, killed at least 37 people, including five children, according to health officials.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah received at least 37 bodies from the strike on the school run by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, updating an earlier figure of 27 given by the government media office.
Additionally, records from the hospital and observations from an Associated Press reporter confirm that another six bodies from a separate strike on a home were also transported to the hospital.
Israel’s military said Thursday it was not aware of any civilian casualties in the strike.
“I’m not aware of civilians being caught up in this. We will be looking at the data and intelligence that comes out in the next few hours or day,” Israeli military spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner told journalists.
He declined to say whether the military would investigate the strike, as it did in May when an Israeli strike near a tent camp sheltering displaced people killed dozens in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.
On Wednesday, tens of thousands of residents of the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip fled to areas they believe are safe, as the Israeli occupation army began a ground military invasion in the region, according to the German News Agency (DPA).
The displaced Palestinians were seen walking tens of kilometers on foot to escape the ongoing Israeli bombing and perhaps save their children and women from what they described as "hell."
The Israeli occupation forces said on Tuesday that they are conducting new air and ground operations in central Gaza focusing on Deir Al-Balah and the Bureij refugee camp.
Designated safe zones have been repeatedly changed by Israel as attacks on refugee camps and supposed safe zones have intensified in the strip, with around 1.7 million Palestinians being internally displaced since the start of this Israeli war on Gaza, and with the grim shadow of starvation looming over the strip threatening the lives of more than 1 million Palestinians.
Since 7 October, Israel has been waging a large-scale war on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 36,586 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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