Update: 13 Palestinians, including 4 children, killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
Gaza Strip (QNN)- 13 Palestinians, including four children and four women, were killed and 20 others injured in a series of brutal Israeli airstrikes which targeted several houses, locations, and residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip, earlier on Tuesday.
At about 2 am local time on Tuesday (23:00 GMT Monday), Israeli occupation launched a series of airstrikes that targeted residential apartments and houses, killing 13, including three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group, Jihad al-Ghannam, Khalil al-Bahtini, and Tariq Izz al-Deen.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 13 people were killed and 20 injured.
The PIJ has announced that three of its leaders were killed in the Israeli attack along with their wives and several children.
The Israeli military said the air raids, codenamed “Operation Shield and Arrow”, targeted three Palestinian Islamic Jihad members who it claimed were responsible for recent rockets fired towards ‘Israel’.
A new Israeli massacre in Gaza
12 Palestinians were killed, including children, mothers, and fathers, in a series of Israeli airstrikes on their houses while peacefully sleeping in the besieged Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/u1xHPLzR2K
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 9, 2023
These two beautiful kids, Mayar and Ali, along with their father and mother, were brutally murdered in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their family home in Gaza this early morning. pic.twitter.com/h1Ga9dJCs5
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 9, 2023
BREAKING: An entire family including 3 CHILDREN were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their house in Gaza earlier tonight, bringing the death toll of the Israeli aggression to 9. pic.twitter.com/ut2m0gWahG
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 9, 2023
Footage documenting one of the Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, earlier tonight. pic.twitter.com/A4Ae8sp8Rt
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 9, 2023
