Three dead, six injured after Israeli bombing in Gaza City
At least three people died and six others were injured after an Israeli missile attack in the Zarqa neighborhood north of Gaza City early Wednesday, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Among the dead were two children and their motherwho were transferred with the rest of the injured to the city’s Baptist hospital, according to this media.
This bombing took place in the middle of an Israeli military offensive in the north of the Gaza Strip, which has already left more than 700 dead, according to Hamas figures, after nineteen days of siege. On October 4, Israel issued new evacuation orders to around 400,000 Gazans from the northern towns of Jabalia – and its refugee camp of the same name – Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, accompanied by shelling of residential buildings and artillery attacks.
In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces said Wednesday that their troops were continuing their operations in Jabalia, “eliminating numerous terrorists and locating weapons.” “Soldiers also apprehended dozens of terrorists while facilitating the safe evacuation of thousands of civilians through designated routes,” the official text said.
The Israeli army also attacked the town of Qalqilya, in the northwest of the West Bank, this Wednesday morning, arresting “several citizens” during the operation, Wafa agency reported. According to sources cited by this media, Israeli forces released some of the detainees after questioning them. The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05), and so far in 2024, some 415 Palestinians have been killed in the territory by Israeli fire, most of them militiamen from the camps. refugees, but also civilians including at least 69 minors, according to the EFE count based on Health data. On the Israeli side, 38 people have died this year: 16 soldiers in uniform and 22 civilians, including nine settlers. Most were killed in Palestinian attacks, but at least four soldiers were killed in military raids in Jenin and Tulkarem.
