GAZA CITY – Israel’s onslaught on Gaza reached its 142nd consecutive day with dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women reported killed or injured by Israeli airstrikes or gunfire over the last few hours, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
WAFA correspondents reported that several Palestinian civilians were killed as a result of renewed Israeli artillery shelling in the western areas of Khan Yunis, south of the enclave, as well as in the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.
In Gaza City, a Palestinian was confirmed killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential home in the Shaaf area east of the city. Simultaneously, Israeli drones fired shots on the eastern neighborhoods of the city, coinciding with artillery shelling on the area.
Explosions were also heard and reported heavily in the Zaytoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, as Israeli tanks resumed their ground offensive over the last few days in the neighborhood after several weeks of partial withdrawal from the area.
Meanwhile, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, local sources confirmed the retrieval of a martyr following the Israeli shelling of a house in the town, with several individuals still missing under the rubble.