Gaza City, August 15 (RHC)-- An Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of an entire family, the regime’s latest act of genocide in more than 10 months of brutal aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory.
Palestinian media reports said the strike targeted Nuseirat refugee camp before midnight on Tuesday and “took the lives of the entire Abu Naba family.” The onslaught killed the seven-member family, father, mother and five children aged between 2 and 11.
Reports said the bodies were taken to Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza and “the youngest of the dead children - a 2-year-old - was beheaded.” Earlier at the same hospital, witnesses said a little girl was seen being treated on the floor with her injured head and next to her, the body of a dead baby boy laid with his eyes half open.
Strikes on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday also killed newborn twins, their mother and their grandmother. The twins - a boy and a girl - were born on August 10th. They didn't even live for one week!
The Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday that 115 infants have been born and killed since the Israeli regime launched its barbaric war on the besieged territory in October last year.
Palestinian Maan news agency said in a comprehensive report on Wednesday that the Israeli warplanes continued their bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 313th day of war, leaving 32 Palestinians dead and 88 others injured.
The occupation forces pressed ahead with their ground aggression in eastern Khan Yunis for the seventh consecutive day as the aerial bombardment continued in various parts of the city.
Hamad City in the northwest of Khan Yunis was shelled and the occupation forces destroyed residential blocks in the towns of al-Qarara and Abasan. Israeli warplanes targeted agricultural land behind the Khan Yunis Courts Complex on the outskirts of al-Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis. Two citizens were injured when the occupation bombed a group of citizens in the Araba area, north of Rafah.
Medics recovered five dead bodies from Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli occupation army blew up a residential block in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
The Israeli regime’s Washington-backed bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed nearly 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 92,152 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.
No credible signs of Israel’s commitment to ceasefire: China
China’s permanent representative to the United Nations censured the unfettered US support to Israel and said there is no end in sight to the Israeli aggression in Gaza despite international efforts aimed at implementing a ceasefire there.
"When pushing for Security Council Resolution 2735, the US claimed that Israel had accepted a ceasefire agreement, but the reality is quite the opposite," Fu Cong told the Security Council during an emergency session on Palestine on Tuesday.
Stressing that there are no "credible signs of Israel's commitment to a ceasefire," Fu said, "What we see is ever-expanding military operations and ever-rising civilian casualties."
The Chinese envoy noted that the U.S. is the "largest supplier of weapons" to Israel and has enough influence over the occupying entity. "We hope that the U.S. will take sincere and responsible actions to push Israel to stop its military operations in Gaza as soon as possible, and to stop slaughtering civilians," he added.
