New Zionist Massacre in Gaza

The Israeli army launched a new round of heavy attacks and crimes in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 59 Palestinian civilians and wounding dozens more.

News ID: 86172

Date: 18 May 2025 - 09:22

TEHRAN (Defapress) - Israeli fighters bombed a refugee tent in the Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, killing more than 35 Palestinians and wounding dozens more. Local sources and eyewitnesses announced that the Israeli army's attack set the refugee tent on fire, causing heavy casualties. Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza Strip's Civil Defense, announced the martyrdom of at least 35 people in the bombing, including children and women, and the injury of several others. Many Palestinian citizens suffered severe burns as a result of the bombing.

In this regard, Al Jazeera also reported that on the 62 days of the resumption of the war on Gaza, 35 Palestinians were martyred west of the city of Khan Yunis. The network also reported the martyrdom of 4 Palestinians and the injury of several others in a house bombing in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. At least 10 people were also martyred and several others were injured in a house bombing in the Jabalia al-Nazla area in northern Gaza.

News sources pointed to the martyrdom of a little girl during a house bombing in central Gaza and an Israeli artillery attack on the areas in eastern Khan Yunis. A series of attacks were also carried out on Tal al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip.

In this regard, Al-Jazeera reported that at least 15 Palestinian citizens, most of whom are women and children, were martyred in a house bombing in northern Gaza City.

According to Al-Jazeera, since midnight on Sunday morning, at least 59 Palestinian citizens have been martyred in the heavy bombardment of the Israeli army in various areas of the Gaza Strip.

The government information office in the Gaza Strip has announced that the occupying army has martyred more than 200 Palestinian citizens in the last 48 hours, displaced 300,000 people from the northern Gaza Strip to Gaza City, and destroyed nearly a thousand Palestinian residential units.