Mourners offer funeral prayers next to the bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Palestine, May 15, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
Israeli airstrike kills 8 children, 2 women from same family in Gaza
Gaza- Eight children of a Palestinian family have been killed in an Israeli airstrike against a refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The pre-dawn airstrike by Israeli warplanes against al-Shati refugee camp also killed two women from the Abu Hatab family and injured 15 others, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
The warplanes targeted their home near the al-Sousi mosque west of Gaza with three missiles, without prior warning.
The development came as Israel has been pounding the blockaded enclave with repeated airstrikes for the past several days.
At least 139 Palestinians, including 39 children and 22 women, have been killed and about 1,000 others injured in Gaza in the Israeli regime’s latest round of aggression that began on Monday.
The United Nation said on Friday that it estimates some 10,000 Palestinians have had to abandon their homes in Gaza “due to the ongoing hostilities” amid an Israeli offensive.
Hamas rockets hit Israel’s Hatzerim Airbase
On Friday night, al-Qassam Brigades, which is the military arm of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, pounded Israel’s Hatzerim Airbase with rockets in response to the regime’s bloody onslaught against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported.
There were no immediate reports about possible casualties among Israeli troops or the extent of damage inflicted on the Hatzerim Airbase, which is located in the Negev Desert on the western outskirts of Beersheba.
Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that a fresh wave of rocket attacks had been conducted from Gaza Strip against various targets in the occupied territories, with al-Qassam Brigades announcing that they had hit Tel Aviv with several rockets.
Al-Qassam Brigades also said it had struck the Israeli city of Ashdod to the north of the Gaza Strip with a round of rockets, reported Turkey’s Anadolu news agency, which quoted the Israeli military as saying that the attack sounded warning sirens in the city as well as in Beersheba.
The resistance groups in the Gaza Strip have so far fired hundreds of rockets toward the occupied territories, some of which have flown as far as Jerusalem al-Quds, in retaliation for Israel’s ceaseless airstrikes against the blockaded enclave.
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