For the 215th day...the occupation continues its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and an escalation in the aggression against Rafah

The genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip has entered its 215th consecutive day, amid the continuation of massacres and targeting of civilians, and the escalation of aggression against the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and its ground invasion and closure of its crossings, which portends catastrophic humanitarian repercussions.

The occupation forces continued their aggression against Rafah with continued air strikes and artillery shelling, while continuing to control the Rafah and Karam Abu Salem crossings and closing them to the movement of passengers and aid.

Israeli gunboats opened fire off the city of Rafah. The occupation aircraft also bombed a residential house east of the city of Rafah, coinciding with intense gunfire from the occupation vehicles in the Mashrou’ Amer area, east of the city of Rafah.

Two people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a motorcycle near the Salah al-Din Gate, south of Rafah.

The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned that the Israeli evacuation orders in Rafah and the ground operation will lead to more death and displacement, and the closure of the crossing prevents the arrival of fuel and restricts the movement of aid and personnel to and from Gaza. Our teams are still present in Rafah, where more than a million people live, including 600. A thousand children.

The occupation forces also continued their genocidal war in the rest of the Gaza Strip. The occupation air force launched a raid targeting agricultural land in the Juhr al-Dik area in the central Gaza Strip.

Seven citizens, including children, were martyred, and others were injured, at dawn on Wednesday, in an Israeli occupation bombing of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

A local source reported that the occupation aircraft targeted an apartment in a residential building for the Al-Louh family, near Al-Falah School in the Askola area in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom of the citizen Naim Muhammad Al-Louh, his wife Suzan Al-Louh, and their children: Ali, Muhammad, Karam, and Sama. And Mays.

He added that rescue crews were able to recover the martyrs and injured and transport them to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. The occupation forces also fired artillery shells towards citizens' homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and the occupation aircraft launched a raid targeting the Central Governorate.

The Israeli occupation continues its aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of last October, which resulted in the martyrdom of 34,789 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 78,204 others, in an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.