Relentless Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed nearly 40,000 people since the start of the war.
He Israeli army released this Tuesday images of its troops in Gaza and stated that continue their offensive in the Strip, including the southern city of Jan Yunis. The AP agency gives names and faces to some of the victims.
Reem Abu Hayyah, barely three months oldwas the only member of his family to survive a Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis on Monday night. A few kilometers north, Mohamed Abuel-Qomasan lost his wife and his twin babies, just four daysin another attack.
He attack about Khan Yunis destroyed a house and killed ten people. Among the victims were Abu Hayyah’s parents and five siblings, ranging in age from 5 to 12, as well as the parents of three other children. All four children were injured in the attack.
“There’s no one left except this baby“said his aunt, Soad Abu Hayyah. “Since this morning we have been trying to feed him formula, but he won’t accept it, because he is used to his mother’s milk.”
The attack that killed Abuel-Qomasan’s wife and newborns (a boy, Asser, and a girl, Ayssel), also killed the twins’ maternal grandmother. Sitting in a hospital, stunned and almost silent, he held up the twins’ birth certificates. When he was registering the births in a local administration office, the neighbors had called him to tell him that the house where the family took refugenear the central city of Deir al-Balah, had been bombed.
More than ten months after the start of war in GazaIsrael’s incessant bombings and attacks on the Strip have killed about 40,000 people in Gaza and have wiped out extended families, leaving parents without children and children without parents, brothers or sisters.
Rocket fire from Gaza
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said Palestinian militants fired shots two rockets from the Gaza Strip and that one of them fell into the sea off the central coast of Israel, while the other projectile did not enter the territory of the Hebrew State.
He armed wing of Hamas For its part, it claimed responsibility for launching two rockets against Tel Aviv, located on the coast of central Israel. Although the firing of Palestinian projectiles has calmed down dramatically, the militants continue to launch sporadic rocket and mortar attacks near the borderbut almost all are intercepted or fall into open spaces without causing casualties or damage.
