Gaza City, December 13 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime’s forces and gunboats have conducted a ferocious attack against the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip after declaring the site to be a “safe zone” for civilians.

Dozens of others were either wounded or went missing during the atrocity that targeted the camp’s residential structures and post office on Friday.

Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli military also targeted a residential block in the camp, killing 40 people and leaving many others buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

Also on Friday, Israeli forces killed Palestinian photographer Shadi Al-Salfiti and another young man in an airstrike near the industrial area in the center of Gaza City, besides bombing the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city, killing Professor Abdul Salam Abu Zaida, dean of graduate studies at al-Aqsa University, and his wife.

Three other people were also killed in another such attack on two tents housing displaced people in the Qizan al-Najjar and Jourat al-Lut areas, south of the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

The fatalities were caused during the genocidal war that the Israeli regime launched on the coastal sliver last October in response to a retaliatory operation that had been staged by the territory’s resistance movements earlier over the regime’s decades-old campaign of occupation and deadly aggression against Palestinians.

The brutal Israeli military onslaught has so far claimed the lives of nearly 44,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Thousands of fatalities have been caused over the past 70 days, during which the regime significantly ramped up its aggression and already stifling siege against the northern parts of the territory, especially the cities of Jabalia and Beit Lahia.

[ SOURCE:  PRESS TV ]