During the night from Thursday to Friday, Israeli forces again increased strikes in the south and center of the Gaza Strip, where witnesses reported intense fighting. Israeli air raids and artillery fire hit Khan Younes on Thursday, a large town in the south of the Gaza Strip which has become the epicenter of operations, according to an AFP journalist.
At the morgue of the local Nasser hospital, Baha Abou Hatab, in tears, leaned over the bodies of his nephews. “They were evacuated to an agricultural field, where they built a tent to protect themselves from the cold, but Israeli airstrikes hit them while they were sleeping. For what ? Because they are children? Because they threaten Israel and the United States? “, he sobbed.
Since the start of hostilities, 22,438 people, mainly women, adolescents and children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip, now almost 1% of the territory’s population, according to the latest report from the Hamas Ministry of Health on Thursday. .