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A night of heavy bombing on the Gaza Strip continued on Wednesday morning when Israeli forces launched intensive raids at various besieged coastal areas.
Local sources said Israeli fighter jets bombed at places belonging to Palestinian armed groups, in addition to security and police buildings. In the city of Tel al-Hawa in Gaza City, a man, his pregnant wife and their five-year-old son were killed by an Israeli attack on their home.
Gaza’s health ministry said the total death toll since the latest attack began was 43, including 13 children. Nearly 300 others were injured.
Five Israelis were also killed. The Israeli army said about 1,500 rockets were fired from Gaza to various places in Israel and that they added reinforcements near the eastern lands of the enclave.
Gaza’s health ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes was now 43 Palestinians, including 13 children and three women. At least 290 others were injured, said journalist Safwat al-Kahlout.
“In the last hour, there have been two Israeli airstrikes,” said Al-Kahlout from the city of Gaza.
According to one witness in the north of the Gaza Strip, one of the local farmers’ car hit. Five farmers were killed in the attack. ”
“In a separate attack on the city of Gaza, there was another Israeli airstrike on a car,” he continued. “Eyewitnesses said a woman and her two children were killed in the car.”
According to Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, all police buildings in the coastal area were destroyed, according to the Hamas-led Interior Ministry in Gaza.