Gaza City, December 9 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has killed at least nine more people across the Gaza Strip, keeping up Tel Aviv’s genocidal war against the coastal sliver.

On Monday, the regime’s forces targeted a group of civilians at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing three people and wounding a number of others.  They simultaneously issued heavy artillery and drone fire towards other civilians trying to reach their homes in Saftawi area, west of Jabalia.

In the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Israeli troops blew up residential buildings in al-Jeneina neighborhood, besides shelling several other areas across the city, killing six more Palestinians.

Also in al-Jeneina, the forces destroyed the Istiqala Mosque, the 972nd mosque to be devastated by the regime since last October, when it brought the entire Gaza under the war.

According to Palestinian sources, as many as 819 of the structures have been completely razed by the regime’s forces.  In the central part of the territory, the Israeli military struck the vicinity of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, and targeted al-Da'wa area northeast of the Nuseirat refugee camp with artillery shells, while the regime’s tanks and bulldozers engaged in destructive operations in the area.

On Sunday, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, said the regime continued to attack the facility with mortar shells and bombs as doctors were trying to treat injured people there.

According to Doctor Hussam Abu Safia, the aggression was underway as there were “patients in the intensive care unit and others waiting to undergo operations.” The operating rooms, however, could not be reached until sufficient electricity and oxygen were secured, he added.

Also on Sunday, Israeli troops killed at least 16 people across Gaza, including during an attack on a camp for displaced people in the city of Deir el-Balah in the central part of the territory, where they slew five members of a family.

At least 44,708 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed, and 106,050 others injured in the war that was launched on October 7, 2023 in response to a retaliatory operation staged by Gaza’s resistance movements.