The Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip is still ongoing and on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of the offensive, the Israeli army killed 47 Palestinians, and wounded dozens of residents in several parts of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources in Gaza reported that the army killed 971 Palestinians, including hundreds of women and children, and wounded at least 4418 in the ongoing offensive.
in the Jabalia
refugee camp on Tuesday evening. At least 40 residents were injured in
these attacks.
In Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, nine Palestinians, including a 75-year old man, were killed when the army shelled a three-story home. Seven members of the family of the slain elderly man were wounded; three of them are children.
The man was identified as Khalid Hamdan Al Najjar, 70, the mother of his grandchildren was also wounded along with with a 45-tear old woman.
In Al Karama and Amer areas in Jablia, Israeli soldiers killed 13 fighters during clashes that took place as the soldiers were advancing into Jabalia.
Also, medics found the body of Moqbil Al Jarabee', 92, who was killed in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on the first day of the offensive. Medics could not reach the area during the extensive Israeli shelling. When the medics located the decomposed body, the found a while flag in his palm.
Also, soldiers fired a missile at Al Sundaiyya area, north of Gaza City, and killed a fighter identified as Hisham Al Saqqa, 21.
Eight Palestinians were killed during clashes with Israeli troops invading Tal Al Hawa area in Gaza. Several residents were injured.
The army also killed Yahia Jamil Ayyad, 30, and Ashraf Hamdi Ayyad, 23, as they were trying to reach their home in Al Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Both were civilians and not fighters. Also in Al Zeitoun, the army killed a fighter identified as Mohamamd Harzallah, 23. Harzallah was killed by a missile fired by the Israeli Air Force.
Medical sources in Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported that two civilians died of earlier wounds sustained in the ongoing offensive. They was identified as Hasan Eshtewy, 68, who was seriously wounded in Al Zeitoun neighborhood, and Mamdouh Waleed Sh-Heibir, 18.
Furthermore,
an Egyptian hospital declared that resident Naji Ramzi Meet, 21, from
Al Boreij, died of wounds sustained on January 6 when the army shelled
a home in the Al Bo
reij refugee camp.
The number of Palestinians who were killed in the ongoing offensive is now more than 945, 635 of them are civilians, and 165 are policemen who are also classified as civilians.
[Oregon Senator Wyden supports Israel's offensive which is killing so many people so indiscriminately. He says he is "pro-Palestinian".]