Ten more Palestinians have been martyred on the third day of Israeli strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip, bringing the total Palestinian death toll since Friday to 17, while 110 Palestinians reported injured.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing the Gazan Health Ministry, said three Palestinians lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a crowd in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shujaeya on Sunday.
A ministry spokesman, Ashraf al-Qudra, identified the three as Bilal al-Bana, Abdullah Abu al-Ata, and Hamed Ahmed Abdel Khazri, saying that Khazri was a commander of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.
A few hours later, two more Palestinians lost their lives in an Israeli air raid targeting the Bureij camp in central Gaza.
Five more Palestinians were martyred after Israeli warplanes hit Palestinians’ houses in Rafah and Beit Lahia.
The ministry also said that at least 90 people had been wounded in the Israeli aggression against the sliver.
In a press release on Sunday, Hamas said ‘Israel’ was to blame for the violence.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum held “the Israeli occupation responsible for any repercussions of its crimes, violations, and rejection to implement the ceasefire understandings.”
Separately, the Gaza Joint Chamber of Military Operations, which comprises various Palestinian resistance factions, said that the groups had “decided to respond to the occupation’s crimes in the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented way.”
“Given the insistence of the enemy to target civilians’ homes, the resistance decided to respond in an unprecedented manner to the crimes of the occupation,” it said, without providing further details.
