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Gaza, SANA-34 Palestinian people were killed on Wednesday due to an incessant Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the impoverished and besieged strip to 665 and some 4, 160 wounded.
Israel began a military aggression on Gaza on July 7.
According to news agencies, Israeli bombardment and air raids in several areas across Gaza Strip on Wednesday left a total of 34 Palestinians killed and up to 160 wounded, with operations to pull the bodies from under the rubble caused by overnight Israeli raids continuing.
Israeli occupation forces hamper the access of medical aid to the Strip, deliberately blocking entrances to the areas where the bodies of victims and wounded lay amid impassioned pleas by the locals demanding they be evacuated.
Medical teams struggle with mounting challenges due to rising numbers of fatalities and lack of medical supplies, with Israel pushing ahead with unbridled shelling and bombardment amid international inaction and Arab silence.
Among the staggering figures of the dead in the Gaza Strip, 80 per cent of the victims are civilians, according to the Palestinians Human Rights Center.
“541 civilians, which makes up for 81.5 per cent of those killed during the aggression are civilians, among them 161 children and 91 women,” the Center said in a statement.
Palestinian resistance hits back
In reaction, the Palestinian resistance announced it hit Tuesday an Israeli F16 fighter jet that flew over Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.
“On Tuesday, the air defense unit had hit an Israeli fighter jet that flew over Deir al-Balah area while trying to assault our people,” the Palestinian news agency SAFA quoted the al-Qassam Brigades sources as saying.
The is the first such operation against Israeli fighter jets since the onset of the aggression, but the Palestinian resistance has managed to down several Israeli reconnaissance planes flying over the Strip.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation announced that three Israeli soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded on Wednesday, with the number of the Israeli soldiers declared killed since the beginning of aggression now standing at 32.
M. Ismael
