Three Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling in Rafah and Khan Yunis

KHAN YUNIS: At least three Palestinians were killed this morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Media sources reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli shelling on a house in the vicinity of Rabaa School in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Local sources also reported that 5 injuries, including children, arrived at Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah as a result of the Israeli shelling of the Barkat family's house in the Salam neighborhood of the city. Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike targeting agricultural land near the border area south of Rafah, coinciding with the Israeli naval gunboats firing machine gun shots towards fishermen's boats westward. In Khan Yunis, a Palestinian was killed in a shelling targeting a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood, while one of the displaced persons at Al-Amal Hospital was injured in the head in the same attack. Two civilians were al so injured as a result of Israeli gunfire targeting a school sheltering displaced families in the Namsawi neighborhood in the city. Meantime, local sources reported the retrieval of the bodies of four martyrs from the Al-Qarara area to the east earlier after the area had been targeted by Israeli bombardment. The developments come as the Israeli occupation forces continue to besiege the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Yunis city, accompanied by intense shelling and heavy gunfire from the forces, while Israeli vehicles are conducting extensive excavation work in the vicinity. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA