The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to 31 Palestinians, including six children, on Sunday afternoon following two days of brutal Israeli attacks.
The Palestinian health ministry said that 253 people in Gaza had been wounded since the hostilities with Israel broke out on Friday.
Children Killed during Israel’s onslaught on Gaza: Alaa Qaddoum 5-year, Ahmad Alnairab11-year, Momen Alnairab 5-year,Mohammed Hassouna 14-year, Khalil Abu Hamads 17year, Hazem Salem 12-year (Image Twitter @RamAbdu)
The violence is the worst in Gaza since a war last year that devastated the impoverished territory.
Israel said it launched the attacks in what it described as the pre-emption of an attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad attack meant to avenge the arrest of a group leader in the occupied West Bank.
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About 2.3 million Palestinians are packed into the narrow coastal Gaza Strip, with Israel and Egypt tightly restricting the movement of people and goods in and out of the enclave.
The effect of the criminal regime’s bombing of Palestinian residential neighbourhood in Gaza city. (Image: Twitter)
Heartbreaking: Israeli forces killed six Palestinian children in the Jabaliya refugee camp, north of Gaza (Image Twitter: @knabilbd)Palestinians assess a residential building damaged by Israeli air attacks in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. [Said Khatib/AFP]A Palestinian child stands behind a shattered window inside a building damaged by Israeli air attacks. [Said Khatib/AFP]Rescuers walk over the rubble of a building destroyed by Israeli air attacks in Rafah. [Said Khatib/AFP]Palestinians search through the rubble of a building. [Said Khatib/AFP]Palestinians salvage belongings from the rubble of their home, destroyed by Israeli air attacks in Gaza City. [Mahmud Hams/AFP]A fireball erupts as a result of an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City. [Ashraf Amra/AFP]
