DAY 273 OF ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE: CASUALTIES IN ONGOING AIRSTRIKES ACROSS GAZA

Early this morning, a number of civilians were killed and others injured in airstrikes and artillery bombardments by Israeli occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, as the aggression entered its 273rd day. In Gaza City, emergency and rescue teams retrieved the bodies of four individuals and several injured following an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Bardawil family in the Daraj neighborhood. The casualties were transported to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city. Meantime, Israeli artillery targeted eastern parts of the Shejaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, amidst heavy gunfire that destroyed several residential buildings in the area. Additionally, rescue teams recovered the bodies of five individuals, including three children, after Israeli forces struck their home on Gaza Street in old Jabalia town, north of the Strip. They were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital in neighboring Beit Lahia. Simultaneously, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams transferred the body of one individual killed and three others injured, who were hit by Israeli drone airstrikes east of Jabalia refugee camp, to Kamal Adwan Hospital. Furthermore, the Red Crescent retrieved the body of another individual killed east of Rafah in southern Gaza, and transported him to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. Israeli artillery also targeted the Nassr area northeast of Rafah, coinciding with an incursion by Israeli military tanks into the outskirts of the neighborhood east of the city. In Khan Yunis, the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the killing of at least one Palestinian and other injuries in an Israeli airstrike targeting their home in Bani Suhaila town east of the city. They were taken to Nasser Medical Complex in the city. Additionally, Israeli forces deployed illuminating flares in southeastern Khan Yunis, while an airstrike targeted an uninhabited house in Abasan town east of the city. Moreover, the Israeli occupation forces targeted northwest of Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Ga za Strip with artillery and gunfire, as well as northern areas of al-Zahra City in central Gaza. The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 38,011 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 87,445 injuries, according to the latest updates released by the local health authorities in the region. Source: National news agency - Lebanon