At least eight Palestinian civilians have died and 16 more have been injured to various degrees in the late afternoon of this Friday as a result of a new wave of bombings by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Gaza City and the Jabalia camp, both locations in the Gaza Strip.
Simultaneous airstrikes carried out by the Israeli air force have left four dead and eight when they hit a house in Gaza City where a civilian meeting was being held, the Wafa news agency has reported.
In parallel, three other Gazan citizens have lost their lives as a result of another attack, which demolished a house in the Al Zaytoun neighborhood, in the southeast of the same city, also injuring five people, according to medical sources collected by the aforementioned media. .
In the south of Gaza City, the authorities have reported another death and three injuries, following a bombing that occurred during another citizens’ meeting that took place in the Al Sabra neighborhood.
On the other hand, an attack carried out by IDF aircraft against a house in the city of Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, has ended the lives of a yet to be determined number of deaths, also leaving numerous people injured. diverse consideration.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), indicated this Friday in a statement that so far 44,875 deaths and 106,454 injuries have been confirmed, including 40 “martyrs” and 98 injured due to “three massacres” perpetrated by Israeli troops during the last day.
However, he has stressed that these balances only include the victims who have arrived at hospitals in the enclave and has reiterated that there are still numerous dead “under the rubble and lying in the streets, since ambulances and Civil Defense teams cannot reach them.”
Israel launched its offensive against Gaza after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, which left nearly 1,200 dead and about 250 kidnapped. Additionally, around 800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and in settler attacks since then in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.