The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Tuesday morning that the death toll from Israeli raids on Gaza had risen to 12, including children and leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement’s Al-Quds Brigades.
A health sector official in Gaza said at least 12 people were killed and 20 others injured in the aerial bombardment that hit residential areas.
Palestinian sources said that among the victims of the Israeli raids on Gaza were 6 civilians, including children, while our correspondent in Gaza reported the murder of a prominent commander of the Al-Quds Brigades.
The Israeli army said earlier that it had targeted 3 top leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement, saying it had targeted sites and warehouses belonging to the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza.
And the Al-Quds Brigades confirmed, in a statement, that the leaders who were killed in the Israeli strikes are Jihad Shaker Al-Ghanam, Khalil Salah Al-Bahtini and Tariq Muhammad Ezz Al-Din.
Palestinians on social media mourned a well-known dentist who was killed in his home in the airstrikes, describing him as a loyal friend and a humble man.
The Israeli army said it was ready for “all scenarios” after the raids it launched on the Gaza Strip.
Powerful explosions rocked Gaza and video footage on social media showed billowing smoke and flames lighting up the night sky.
The airstrikes represent the latest chapter in the escalation of violence for more than a year, as Israeli military raids are repeated and settler violence intensifies in the occupied West Bank.
More than 90 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis have been killed since January.
The death of a Palestinian detainee who went on a hunger strike in an Israeli prison last week sparked a cross-border firefight between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza for several hours, resulting in the death of a Palestinian.
Storming the Old Town of Nablus
In Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army pushed important military reinforcements towards the city, after having stormed it Tuesday morning.
Palestinian gunmen have targeted an Israeli special force with gunfire and explosive devices inside the Old City in central Nablus, and the Israeli army is pushing heavy military reinforcements towards the city.
Today, Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that a child was injured by Israeli army bullets in Nablus.
Our reporter had reported that an Israeli special force stormed the town and a huge explosion was heard.
It was reported that the Israeli army had besieged a house in the Al-Yasmeen neighborhood in the old city of Nablus, amid heavy armed clashes.
For his part, the Israeli Minister of Defense ordered the recall of the reservists.
Urgent international intervention is needed
On Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in the strongest terms “the heinous crime committed by the occupation army against our people in the Gaza Strip”.
The statement said:
The shelling killed 12 people, mostly children, women and unarmed civilians. She saw the attack as “an extension of the occupation’s open war against our people and their just and legitimate national rights, and a continuation of the Israeli government’s attempts to export its crises to the Palestinian arena and resolve them.” to the detriment of the rights of our people.” He viewed what happened as “an outrageous Israeli attempt to perpetuate the logic of brutal military force in dealing with the issue of our people as an alternative to peaceful political solutions to the conflict. “. The ministry held the Israeli government “fully and directly responsible for this aggression and its consequences on the arena of the conflict, as a dangerous escalation which threatens to explode it completely”. It called on the international community to “intervene to stop the aggression against our people, and stresses that a negotiated political solution to the conflict is the only way to achieve security and stability in the arena of conflict”.
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