Civil Defense announces the killing of 50 people in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.

 

The Civil Defense announced on Friday that at least 50 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since midnight.

The Civil Defense's director of medical supplies, Mohammed al-Mughayyir, told AFP, "The death toll from the Israeli bombing that targeted civilian homes from midnight until early this morning in the northern Gaza Strip has risen to 50," adding, "Our crews are still working in those areas."

A medical source at the Indonesian Hospital told AFP, "30 martyrs and dozens of wounded, most of them children and women, arrived at the hospital."

Mohammed Salha, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, told AFP, "We have treated more than 75 wounded at Al-Awda Hospital, in addition to the arrival of five martyrs."

Youssef al-Sultan, 40, who lives in the Al-Sultan area in western Beit Lahia, told AFP, "My family and I miraculously survived a short while ago." He added, "The Israeli occupation bombed the house next to mine, with its residents inside."

He spoke of "a massive exodus of citizens. Fear and panic in the middle of the night never leave us."