‘Genocidal War’: Israeli Strike Kills at Least 110 Across Gaza Strip
The victims include women and children who were killed in several air strikes across the Gaza Strip late on Monday and before dawn on Tuesday, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Israeli attacks targeted various locations across the besieged strip, including refugee camps, residential areas, and infrastructure. The worst-hit area was Rafah in the south, where more than 30 people lost their lives.
In Khan Younis, another southern city, at least 23 people were killed and more than 80 others were wounded. Many of the injured were taken to the Al-Nasser Hospital, which was overwhelmed by the influx of casualties.
In the north, Israeli warplanes struck the al-Shati refugee camp and al-Balad in Jabaliya, killing dozens of people.
Another refugee camp, al-Bureij in central Gaza, was also attacked by the regime, resulting in more deaths and injuries.
The rising death toll comes amid a devastating war that Israel has been waging against the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7, after the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups staged Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a surprise attack into the occupied territories, in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the Israeli onslaught has so far killed over 5,000 Palestinians, including 2,055 children and 1,119 women, while more than 15,000 people have been injured.
‘Another page of shame in Israeli blood-stained history’
The head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas slammed the continued “horrific massacres” of the occupying regime in Gaza while also slamming Western countries for backing “criminal occupiers.”
"These [Israeli] criminals do not differentiate between people. They kill children, women, and the elderly, and commit the most horrific massacres throughout the Gaza Strip. In doing so, they are turning a page of shame in their blood-stained history," Ismail Haniyeh said in a press statement at dawn on Tuesday.
Haniyeh vowed that Palestinian resistance fighters would destroy the occupiers’ strongholds and “no matter how long it takes, they will not enjoy security until our people and children enjoy security, freedom and sovereignty over our blessed land."
He severely criticized the leaders of the Arab and Islamic countries for their inaction in the face of Israel's crimes, saying, "How much blood and massacres is needed in order for you to become angry and take a historical stand in the face of the carnage of children, women and the elderly in Gaza?"
Haniyeh also took Western countries to task for “claiming to be advocates of human rights while having their hands immersed in the blood of our innocent people.”
"Through your positions in support of the genocidal war in Gaza, you have fallen from humanity once and for all, and have built a wall between yourselves and the Arab and Islamic nations that will never fall," he warned the Western backers of Israel.
Source: Agencies
