GAZA CITY (Dispatches) – Gaza’s civil defense agency said the Zionist regime’s strikes on Monday martyred at least 16 people across the Palestinian territory, which has been under an Israeli aid blockade for more than 50 days.
The occupying regime resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18. A ceasefire agreement that had largely halted the fighting for two months before that collapsed.
Gaza’s civil defense agency said Monday that eight people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Abu Mahadi family home in Jabalia, in the north of the territory.
“They were sleeping in their homes, feeling safe, when missiles hit... this scene makes the body shiver,” said Abdul Majeed Abu Mahadi, 67, who added that his brother was killed in the attack.
“If a person looked at this scene, they would have seen children, women and elderly men cut into pieces, it makes the heart ache, but what can we do?”
The civil defense agency also reported that an Israeli strike on the Al-Agha family home killed five people in an area of Khan Yunis in the south.
It added that two people were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the al-Shafii camp, west of Khan Yunis.
One more was killed when an Israeli air strike targeted the Abu Mazen roundabout area west of Gaza City, it said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday that at least 2,222 people have been killed since the Zionist regime resumed strikes, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,314.
The director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday that a “new inferno” has been unleashed on Gaza following the restart of war in the Palestinian territory.
“Gaza is experiencing and enduring... death, injury, multiple displacements, amputations, separation, disappearance, starvation and denial of aid and dignity on a massive scale, and just when the all important ceasefire led people to believe they had survived the worst, a new inferno was unleashed,” Pierre Krahenbuhl told a Doha conference on security.