ALBAWABA - Since Thursday morning, more than 100 Palestinians have been murdered by increased Israeli bombings throughout the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 17 more people were killed overnight in attacks that targeted different parts of the beleaguered region.
Eight Abu Asr family members were killed when their home was targeted in the Shujaiya area, east of Gaza City. Five persons were killed in another airstrike that targeted a home in central Gaza's Nuseirat Camp.
A strike on a home west of Deir al-Balah in the same central region claimed the lives of two Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israeli airplanes struck a tent housing displaced people in the Mawasi neighborhood in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing a lady and her kid.
There has also been constant bombing in northern Gaza, with Israeli forces hitting Jabalia Camp repeatedly. This morning, the correspondent with Al Jazeera said that Israeli army had destroyed a number of local residential buildings.
The escalation comes after an October 5 Israeli ground invasion of northern Gaza, which was said to have prevented Hamas from reorganizing there.
Israel has been charged by Palestinians with attempting to capture northern Gaza and turn it into a buffer zone. The humanitarian crisis has been made worse by the continuous shelling, civilian displacement, and blockade that prevents access to food, water, and medication.
This intensification coincides with the 14th month of Israel's catastrophic war on Gaza, which has left over 10,000 Palestinians still unaccounted for and over 148,000 dead or injured, the most of whom are women and children. Widespread devastation, acute food shortages, and an escalating humanitarian crisis are the outcomes of the fighting.
