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MADRID 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least nine Palestinian civilians, including three children, have been killed and a number yet to be determined have been injured during the early hours of this Saturday as a result of a new wave of airstrikes by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on different locations. the Gaza Strip.
Correspondents from the Wafa news agency have reported that one of the bombings recorded during the night has hit a family home located in the Al Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of the Palestinian enclave, whose victims have been transferred to the Al hospital. Aqsa, in the neighboring city of Deir al Balá.
On the other hand, the Israeli air forces have also fired against the tents of a refugee settlement in Mawasi, in the city of Rafá, in the south of the Strip. On this occasion, the injured have been taken to the Nasser Hospital in the also southern city of Khan Yunis.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), has this Friday raised the death toll to more than 45,436 and 108,038 injured due to the offensive unleashed by Israel against the enclave after the attacks on October 7, 2023, including 37 dead and 98 injured due to “three massacres” carried out by Israeli troops during the last 24 hours.
However, he highlighted that “there are still victims under the rubble and in the streets, given that ambulances and Civil Defense teams cannot reach them”, before adding that the balances only include victims who have been transported. to Gaza hospitals, most of them out of service.
The Israeli Army launched its offensive against Gaza after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, which left nearly 1,200 dead and about 250 kidnapped. Likewise, around 810 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and in settler attacks since then in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.