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Gaza: Two Palestinians were killed and eight others wounded, while 15 buildings and one mosque were destroyed on Tuesday, as the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip continued for the ninth consecutive day.
Palestinian medical sources reported that Mahmoud Ramadan Ishtawi, 18, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Three-year-old Amna Iyad Shreir also died from injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike on her home on May 11, which killed her parents, Iyad Shreir, 44, and Layali Shreir, 40, and her sister, Lina Shreir, 15.
According to medical sources, eight other Palestinians were wounded in separate airstrikes on homes in the Gaza Strip, with injuries ranging from moderate to serious. The Israeli army focused its attacks on Tuesday on buildings and homes, targeting 15 residences with missiles. This morning, the Israeli army completely destroyed the Kahil building in the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
The six-story building was located near a group of schools belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and the Islamic University.
The ground floor of the building housed the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque, which was completely destroyed.
The building also contained several educational centers. In addition, Israeli warplanes destroyed a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
In Khan Younis (also in the south), three houses were destroyed.
In the central Gaza Strip, warplanes bombed a house in the Bureij refugee camp, injuring one person.
In Gaza City, Israeli forces bombed five houses.
In the northern Gaza Strip, four houses were destroyed. Statistics indicate that warplanes launched more than ten airstrikes on agricultural lands, poultry farms, and resistance sites in the towns of Al-Qarara, Abasan Al-Kabira and Abasan Al-Jadida, Bani Suheila, Ma'an, and Al-Manara in Khan Younis (south), as well as two sites in the Al-Zanna and Al-Muharrarat areas east and west of Khan Younis, and one airstrike on the Abu Khadra government complex and another east of Jabalia.
He added that warships continued to bombard the Gaza Strip's coastline with dozens of shells, coinciding with artillery shelling in the eastern part of the Strip, causing fires in fields and a house fire in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis.
Early this morning, Israeli warplanes launched a fierce and successive bombardment of dozens of targets in the Jabal Al-Rais, Beit Lahia, Al-Tuam, Al-Karama, and Sheikh Zayed areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
The bombing also targeted the Al-Maqousi and Al-Katiba areas north and west of Gaza City. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli airstrikes targeted resistance sites, streets, and infrastructure, causing widespread destruction.
The Gaza Government Media Office announced on Tuesday that the losses from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip have reached approximately $243 million, due to the complete or partial damage inflicted on hundreds of residential, commercial, and governmental facilities by the airstrikes.
On Tuesday, the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza, which began on May 10, rose to 217 martyrs, including 63 children and 36 women, in addition to 1,500 wounded, including 50 critical injuries and 370 injuries to the upper body, 130 of which were head injuries. Among the wounded are 450 children and 295 women, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Since April 13, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has exploded as a result of “brutal” attacks committed by the Israeli police and settlers in the occupied city of Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings and the “Sheikh Jarrah” neighborhood (central), following Israeli efforts to evacuate 12 homes from Palestinian families and hand them over to settlers.