Israeli bombing kills dozens in Gaza ‘in their sleep’
Palestinian Territories – AFP
Israeli bombing killed dozens of people overnight in Gaza, the health ministry of the Palestinian territory said Thursday.
The Gaza health ministry reported “dozens of martyrs and more than 100 wounded in the continued barbaric aerial and artillery bombardment of citizens’ homes in the Gaza Strip”.
Fires sparked by bombing raged in Gaza’s central Deir al-Balah area and the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
“People were safe in their homes, the house was full of children,” resident Ibrahim al-Ghimri told AFP. “There were around 30 people. All of a sudden their houses fell on them… What have these children done?”
– ‘Hit in their sleep’ –
A strike in Gaza’s south killed displaced Palestinians living in tents, said bereaved residents who were mourning the dead, wrapped in shrouds at a hospital in Khan Yunis.
Baha Abu Hatab said his nephews were killed.
They had been living in “a tent to protect them from the cold weather, but Israeli airstrikes hit them in their sleep”, he added.
“Why?” he asked. “Because they threaten Israel and the United States?”
In its almost three-months long war, Israel has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians living in Gaza, mostly women and children.
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