A statement by the Palestinian government media office stated that 50 Israeli warplanes participated in the raids on Gaza, which led to the death of “33 Palestinian martyrs,” including 6 children, 3 women, and two elderly people, and the injury of 47 others.
Aerial footage captured the destroyed Palestinian homes bombed by Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip, where an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire agreement ended, dozens of Israeli air raids on Palestinians on the one hand, and hundreds of rockets fired by armed Palestinian factions at Israeli settlements and towns bordering Gaza. Operations from both sides continued for five days, during which at least 33 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip and one Israeli in the city of Rehovot.
The agreement entered into force on Saturday night, and calm returned on Sunday morning in the Gaza Strip and Israel, without the sounds of bombing, planes or sirens.
A statement by the Palestinian government media office stated that 50 Israeli warplanes participated in the raids on Gaza, which led to the death of “33 Palestinian martyrs,” including 6 children, 3 women, and two elderly people, and the injury of 47 others.
According to the statement, the bombing also led to the complete demolition of 51 housing units, and damage to about 49 housing units that have become unfit for habitation, while it caused partial damage to 891 other housing units.
Life returned to the streets of the Gaza Strip, which were filled with pedestrians and vehicles, and fishermen sailed in their boats in the coastal strip, while the residents of Gaza inspected the destruction of their homes in different areas.
The recent confrontations (which are the most violent between Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli forces since August 2022) began with air strikes that killed three military leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement, then other leaders and fighters fell from the movement, as well as from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
For his part, the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Tor Wiennesland, said in a statement: “I am deeply saddened by the loss of life … including the lives of children and women, caused by the Israeli strikes and the indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel, by the Palestinian factions … I pray All parties to respect the cease-fire… I look forward to the re-arrival of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Israeli forces confirmed that since Tuesday they had hit 371 targets on the Palestinian side, and that more than 1,230 missiles were fired from Gaza at Israel, more than 370 of which were intercepted by the Air Defense Organization.
The Gaza Strip, a narrow area inhabited by 2.3 million Palestinians who suffer from poverty and unemployment, has witnessed a number of wars with Israel since 2008.
In August 2022, three days of clashes between Israel and Islamic Jihad killed 49 Palestinians, including at least 19 children, according to the United Nations. At that time, more than a thousand rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel, which resulted in three injuries.
