Thursday, February 28

Death and siege in Gaza: Israeli kills 27 Palestinians including baby

Death and siege in Gaza: Israeli kills
27 Palestinians including baby


One Palestinian has been killed and three others
injured in a raid against a police station in
the west of Gaza City

The station is located next to Palestinian
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's house.
Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, head of
emergency and ambulance services
in the Palestinian Health Ministry,
said that ambulances transferred
the dead body and the casualties to a
hospital in Gaza.

Four Palestinian children were killed in an
Israeli air raid in the Jabalia refugee camp
in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday
afternoon, bringing the number of those
killed in the Gaza Strip to 27 in the last 24
hours. Eight of the dead are children.

Mu'awiya Hasanain said the bodies of
11-year-old Deib Darduna and 14-year-old
'Umar Darduna arrived at the Kamal
Udwan hospital in Beit Hanoun torn to
pieces. Meanwhile, the bodies of
7-year-old Muhammad Hammuda
and 8-year-old Ali Darduna were
taken to Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

A short while later, an Israeli unmanned
reconnaissance plane launched a missile
at a car in Beit Hanoun injuring two
people, one of them seriously.

Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip have been
continuous throughout Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon Palestinian
medics found the dead body of 12-year-
old Amjad As-Sakani in eastern Gaza City.

Meanwhile 25-year-old Hamas activist
Rami Khalifa died of wounds he sustained
on Thursday morning.

Israeli warplanes launched a raid on
Thursday afternoon on the northern
Gaza Strip killing 23-year-old Al-Qassam
Brigades member Abdullah Zuwaidi.

A few minutes later, the Israeli warplanes
launched another raid near the agricultural
college in Beit Hanoun in the northern
Gaza Strip.

Several Palestinians were injured in the attack.
At around 9:30 on Thursday morning local time,
Israeli warplanes fired missiles at Palestinian
civilians in eastern Gaza City killing senior
Hamas leader and Palestinian Legislative
Council member and Hamza Khalil
Al-Hayya and 23-year-old Jawad Tafish.
Several others were also injured.
Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director
of ambulance and emergency services
in the Palestinian health ministry told
Ma'an that Ash-Shifa hospital in Gaza
City had received one of the dead and
several people who had sustained
serious injuries.

On Wednesday evening, three Palestinian
children were killed and six others
injured in an Israeli air strike on the
Al Taw'am area close to the Khazandar
gas station, north of Gaza City.

One of the dead was 5-month-old
Muhammad Nasser Al-Borey,
who was in his family home when a
missile struck the building.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, said that
ambulances transported the injured
and dead children, including the
headless body of a child, to the Shifa' a
nd Kamal hospitals.

He added that five children were rushed
to the intensive care unit and the operating
room, with one clinically dead.

Witnesses said that those involved
were passing by a local-made missile
launcher that was struck by the Israeli forces.

Earlier on Wednesday, two Palestinians
were killed and two others injured
when Israeli artillery targeted an
orange grove in the Ash-Shuja'iyya
neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

Hassanain said that one of the dead
was identified as 27-year-old Minwir
Abu Mandeel, who worked as a guard
at the grove. The second victim's
identity remains unknown as the
corpse arrived at the Kamal Udwan
Hospital so badly damaged that it
was not possible to identify the victim.

On Wednesday morning, five
Al-Qassam Brigades activists were
killed, and several bystanders were
injured, after Israeli helicopters
launched two missiles at a car in
western Khan Younis in the southern
Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that
the car was targeted near Al-Aqsa University.

In another Israeli raid on Wednesday
morning an Islamic Jihad activist was
killed and two others injured when and
Israeli unmanned drone targeted two
sites east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the
central Gaza Strip.

A spokesperson of the the Al-Quds
Brigades, the military wing of Islamic
Jihad, said that the victim was Zaky
Abu Zaid. The wounded were evacuated
to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital
for treatment.

– Ma'an


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