hospital reports Israeli strike killing 20 people in Nousseirat

According to witnesses, the strike took place in the middle of the night. The Israeli army said it was verifying these facts.

The center of the Gaza Strip is ravaged by more than seven months of war. Before dawn on Sunday, May 19, an Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in the Nusseirat refugee camp, al-Aqsa hospital and witnesses reported.

“We received twenty deaths and several injured after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house that belonged to the Hassan family in the Nousseirat camp”, the hospital reported. According to witnesses, the strike took place in the middle of the night, around 3 a.m. (2 a.m. in Paris). The Israeli army said it was verifying these facts.

Since May 7, the start of the ground offensive in the city of Rafah, bombings and fighting have intensified around Nousseirat, and, further north, in the city of Gaza and Jabalia, where the Israeli army says carry out operations “targeted”. Witnesses reported explosions and continuous fighting all night in Jabalia on Sunday.

In the north of the Gaza Strip, artillery fire was heard in the Sheikh Zayed area, while in the south, on the border with Egypt, witnesses described Israeli helicopters opening fire in the Gaza Strip. east of the city of Rafah.

The al-Ahli Arab hospital, located in Gaza City, also reports three people killed and several injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in which displaced people were sheltering in the al-Ahli neighborhood. Daraj.