The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today (Wednesday) that 200 Palestinians were killed during the past hours in Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip.
The ministry said in a statement that 120 people were killed and dozens injured after an Israeli bombing targeted homes, Al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals, and ambulances in the northern Gaza Strip.
She pointed out that five people were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted Al-Nour Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have been besieging it since yesterday.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli aircraft launched several violent "belts of fire" raids on Jabalia Camp, Sheikh Zayed City, and Tal al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip, where violent clashes were taking place with Palestinian fighters.
Before that, the Ministry announced the death of 43 people and the loss of dozens in Israeli raids on residential homes in Deir al-Balah and the Nuseirat and al-Maghazi camps in the central Gaza Strip last night.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service announced the recovery of the bodies of 32 people and dozens of wounded as a result of Israeli raids in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, noting that the raids targeted homes and residential buildings.
This comes as several areas witnessed clashes between fighters from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other factions with Israeli army forces penetrating into the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses.
According to the sources, the most intense of these clashes were concentrated in the areas of Al-Saftawi and the vicinity of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, in addition to the east of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
In turn, the Israeli army announced in a statement that a unit commander in the Golani Brigade was killed during the fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. His death brings the number of Israeli army deaths to 71 soldiers since the start of ground operations on October 27.
The Ministry of Health and the government media office in Gaza announced last night that the number of Palestinian martyrs since the seventh of last October had risen to more than 14,000 people, and more than 6,000 were missing.
