A Palestinian family survived a horrific massacre after its home was hit by a missile by Israeli warplanes in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn today, Thursday.
Local residents that an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a house belonging to the "Muhareb" family in Khan Yunis, which was inhabited by about 30 people, and that this missile did not explode. Residents added that a number of family members were taken to the hospital after they were injured due to blowing out of the windows of the house due to the severity of the missile impact on it. The occupation aircraft continued to bomb the center, south and north of the Gaza Strip intensively, targeting several sites and infrastructures. The occupation warplanes bombed an empty car in the Sheikh "Ajlin" neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, and set fire to it. As of Wednesday, the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on Gaza reached 227, including 64 children and 38 women, in addition to more than 1620 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Strip. Twenty-eight Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed, and nearly 7,000 were wounded in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, during confrontations with the occupation army, during which they used live and metal bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse the Palestinians. While 12 Israelis were killed and more than 600 others were wounded, during the Palestinian factions´ response by firing rockets from Gaza, according to the Israeli "Magen David Adom".
