Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday June 15th that the death toll of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Gaza, since October7, has risen to at least 37,296 people, with another 85,197 wounded.
The ministry added that, of them, 30 were killed and another 95 wounded in the last 24 hours.
Palestine Civil Defence teams retrieved the bodies of nine Palestinians from under the rubble of buildings across Rafah.
The European Hospital in Khan Younis reported that the bodies were unearthed from the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli attacks across Rafah.
Unicef spokesperson James Elder also told journalist Owen Jones that he witnessed Israeli forces shooting dead two Palestinian men who were fishing in shallow water while he was waiting at a checkpoint, when an Israeli tank drove up and opened fire on two of them as they tried to flee.
“One is shot in the back, one is shot in the neck,” Elder said.
He added that he was with a paramedic, who radioed to Israeli officials asking for permission to treat the men, which was denied.
“One of these fishermen still had a fishing net trapped round his leg,” he said.
Further, Journalist Mahmoud Abu Salama’s sister and her child have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home during the recent bombardments.
In northern Gaza, 19 people were killed and more than 50 injured in the Israeli bombardment of three houses in the Shujaiya and Tuffah neighborhoods east of Gaza City early this morning.
Casualties were reported from the shelling of the Ramlawi family home in the Sha’af area in Gaza City. Israeli artillery also targeted the vicinity of the stalls market in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, claimed responsibility for a complex ambush against Israeli occupation forces in Rafah this morning.
They targeted a D9 bulldozer with a “Yassin 105” missile, causing it to catch fire and resulting in casualties in a ddition to hitting a Namer APC with a Yassin 105 missile upon the arrival of the rescue team, destroying it and killing all its crew.
About the US floating pire, Israeli sources reported that the US military announced the temporary dismantling of the floating pier in Gaza.
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