The heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli warplanes continues for a sixth day, flattening neighborhoods and shelling homes with residents inside.
The airstrikes on Thursday focused two properties belonging to the al-Masri and al-Hasani households within the Shati (Seashore) refugee camp in Gaza Metropolis alongside the Mediterranean coast.
Israel stated it dropped 6,000 bombs in six days on the besieged enclave, one of the densely populated areas on the planet.
Gaza has been minimize off from the remainder of the world by the Israeli military for sixteen years, successfully forcing its 2.3 million residents to dwell in an open-air jail.
Shati is the third largest refugee camp of the eight within the Gaza Strip, and likewise one of many busiest, with greater than 90,000 individuals dwelling in an space of lower than half a sq. kilometer.
Air raids on the camp on Thursday killed 13 individuals belonging to 2 households.
“Eight of my kinfolk have been killed thus far,” Saad al-Masri advised Al Jazeera. “My brother Abu Mohammed misplaced his two sons, Yaser and Ramadan, and their daughters Abeer, Firyal and Aya.”
The 50-year-old stated there might be extra our bodies below the rubble however there have been no machines to tug them out.
Gaza Metropolis’s fundamental hospital has run out of mortuary area and our bodies in white physique luggage lie on the ground.
The Israeli assault on the Shati camp was adopted by comparable airstrikes all through the Gaza Strip. At the least 31 individuals from the Shihab household, most of them girls and kids, have been killed after an Israeli assault on their residence in Jabalia, the most important refugee camp in northern Gaza, based on Gaza well being authorities.
Within the central metropolis of Deir el-Balah, no less than fourteen members of the Azaizeh household have been killed after their residence was focused.
The dying toll has now surpassed 1,500, with 60 p.c of the Palestinians killed being girls and kids, well being officers stated. Greater than 6,000 others have been injured.
