GAZA, May 8 – At least 21 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Civil Defense in Gaza said.
Nine people, including children and women, were killed when Israeli warplanes attacked a residential house in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told Xinhua.
Three young men were killed and four others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian gathering on the outskirts of the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, Basal said.
Besides, nine people, including a girl and a woman, were killed in Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling targeting homes, a school, and tents housing displaced persons in Khan Younis city in southern Gaza, Deir al-Balah city and the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, and the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, the spokesperson added.
The Israeli army has not commented on these incidents yet.
XINHUA