At least 14 dead and several injured by new IDF bombings on the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis

MADRID 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least 14 Palestinian civilians have lost their lives and a number yet to be determined have been injured during the early hours of Saturday as a result of a new series of air strikes by the Israeli Army on the cities of Gaza and Khan Younis.

Five of these people have died on Jaffa Street, in Gaza City, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have attacked the Fahd al Sabah school, which served as a shelter for displaced people until then, the agency has reported. Palestinian news outlet Wafa, which has also reported the admission of the wounded to the Baptist Hospital.

For their part, paramedical sources from the Palestinian Red Crescent reported by the same media have confirmed the transfer of nine dead and several wounded to the Nasser Hospital, located in the city of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli air forces have fired on tents also occupied by displaced people.

The Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have estimated this Friday at more than 43,500 deaths and 102,684 injuries due to the military offensive unleashed by Israel against the enclave after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by the Islamist group and other Palestinian factions, including nearly 40 over the past 24 hours.

The offensive against Gaza was launched after the aforementioned attacks on October 7, 2023, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 250 kidnapped, according to Israeli authorities. Added to these tolls are more than 750 Palestinians killed at the hands of Israeli security forces and in attacks perpetrated by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.