Al-Jazeera / July 20, 2024
Israeli attacks kill dozens, including local journalist, as Palestinian death toll in besieged territory nears 39,000.
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The Israeli military has continued its relentless bombardment of Gaza with strikes hitting the southern, central and northern parts of the territory.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said on Saturday that its crews retrieved the bodies of 12 people who were killed in separate Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The Israeli army had bombed a residential tower in the area.
The Civil Defence also documented the killing of six Palestinians in the neighbouring Bureij camp, while 10 others were killed in Gaza City and other areas north of the territory.
Israel also bombed a commercial building housing displaced people east of Khan Younis late on Saturday, according to local sources. The Civil Defence said the attack killed at least six people, with others still missing under the rubble.
The WAFA news agency also reported that one person was killed and several others were injured in an Israeli air attack in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Israeli shelling of Jabalia in northern Gaza killed local journalist Muhammad Abu Jasser along with his wife and two children.
“We were sleeping in the house safely. There was no armed presence. All of a sudden, a missile fell on us,” Abu Jasser’s cousin told Al-Jazeera Arabic.
“Torn up bodies were strewn outside – an ugly scene. Little kids, what have they done to be killed like that?”
