16/11/2023–|Last updated: 11/16/202303:42 PM (Mecca time)
For 40 days, the Israeli bombing of the Palestinian Gaza Strip did not stop, and did not even exclude schools, hospitals, and places of worship. The result, in terms of lives, was more than 11,000 martyrs, most of whom were women and children, and the injury of about 30,000, and in terms of property, the destruction of about most of Gaza’s homes. .
On the 41st day of the Israeli war on Gaza, it was noticeable that civilians, their facilities, and their homes remained the most prominent target of the Israeli occupation’s bombing, while the bombing continued and the siege remained in place of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the besieged Strip.
A journalist who spoke to Al Jazeera from the vicinity of the Shifa Complex reported that the clashes around the complex had not stopped since the morning, explaining that the area surrounding the largest medical complex in the Strip had become more like a military zone, and no one could reach it.
Mosques – also – remained among those targeted by the occupation’s bombing, as two mosques were targeted in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of completely destroyed mosques to 74 mosques, in addition to 162 mosques that were partially destroyed, as well as 3 churches that were targeted, According to the government media office in Gaza.
Gas stations also had their share of Israeli bombing today, as Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that 9 martyrs and dozens of injured were killed in a bombing that targeted a petrol station housing displaced people in central Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera’s correspondent, Israeli occupation aircraft targeted homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, west of Gaza City, and also bombed a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the Strip.
Targeting homes does not differentiate between civilians and political figures, as Reuters reported that the occupation army carried out an air strike last night on the home of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
The occupation army spokesman, Avichai Adraee, said in a post on his account on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter), “Last night, IDF forces attacked with combat aircraft the house of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
Adraee added that the house “was used as a meeting site for senior officials of the organization, among other things,” he said.
It is noteworthy that Israel launched ground and air attacks on the Gaza Strip in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, launched by Hamas, which rules the Strip, on the 7th of last month, and included missile attacks, incursions into Israeli towns, and the detention of hostages who were taken to the Strip.