16 members of one family killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza | News

16 people from one family, including 9 children and 3 women, were killed in an Israeli bombardment at dawn on Saturday that targeted a warehouse where displaced people had taken refuge in the Al-Zawaida area in central Gaza. GazaAs part of the occupation's war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for the 316th day.

The spokesman for the Civil Defense in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, explained, The bombing targeted the home of the Al-Ajla family in the Al-Zawaida neighborhood in the center of the Strip, while witness Ahmed Abu Al-Ghoul confirmed that the occupation aircraft bombed the family with 3 missiles, noting that most of the victims were children and women. Activists circulated pictures and a list of the names of the martyrs.

In response to a question from Agence France-Presse, the Israeli army said it had “received information about the killing of civilians in a house due to the strike” and that it was “conducting an investigation.”

The occupation army claimed that it “targeted terrorist infrastructure in the central Gaza Strip from which a large number of rockets were launched in recent weeks towards Israel and its forces.”

Terrorist Israel killed an entire family while they were sleeping inside a “barrack” they had taken refuge in in the middle of the Gaza Strip after dropping a missile on them. This massacre led to the death of 15 people from the same family and a large number of injuries. I am sharing the names so that you cannot comprehend the magnitude of the disaster that befell this family.

Sami Al-Ajla (45 years old) the father… pic.twitter.com/WBBkK6L0IA

— Tamer | Tamer (@tamerqdh) August 17, 2024

Today, medical sources told Al Jazeera that 34 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed in Israeli raids on central and southern Gaza since dawn today.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced today that the Israeli army committed 5 massacres in the past two days, in which 69 Palestinians were killed and 136 others were injured, which raises the number of victims of the aggression since October 7 to 40,074 martyrs and 92,537 injured.

Late last year, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the death of 41 people from one family in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in a neighborhood in central Gaza City.

The ministry then published a list of the names of 41 people belonging to the Malaka family, all of whom were killed in the strike that took place at dawn in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the Strip.