People stand next to a damaged vehicle in a house hit in an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, yesterday.
The number of casualties due to the ongoing Israeli carnage in the Gaza Strip has risen to 38,664 martyrs and 89,097 injured.
Quoting medical sources, Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), yesterday reported that the Israeli occupation army committed three mass murders against families in the Strip, which resulted in 22 martyrs and 102 injured, during the past 24 hours, highlighting that thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on roads, with medical and civil defence personnel being unable to reach them.
Last Saturday, the Israeli occupation army committed a horrendous massacre at the camps of the Palestinian displaced people in Al Mawasi town south of the Strip, which led to 90 martyrs and 300 injured, among them dozens of women and children.
The Israeli occupation army keeps perpetrating the crime of genocide in the Strip.
Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip yesterday following a weekend strike, which killed scores of Palestinians who had sought shelter in a makeshift camp.
Further south in Rafah, the main focus of Israel’s advance since May, residents reported renewed fighting yesterday. Israeli forces in western and central parts of the city blew up several homes, they said.
Medical officials said they recovered 10 bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in eastern areas of the city, some of which had already begun to decompose.
The military also stepped up aerial and tank shelling in central Gaza in the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi historic refugee camps. Health officials said five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Maghazi camp.
Blinken, Israelis discuss truce
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met two key Israeli officials yesterday and discussed ongoing talks toward a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said. National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer in the meeting confirmed Israel is still committed to reaching a ceasefire deal under terms laid out by President Joe Biden on May 31.
