Victims of Israeli violence: 128 dead and 1,304 injured in Gaza and the West Bank
English - Saturday 15 May 2021 الساعة 07:47 pm
NewsYemen, agencies:
On Friday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the number of victims of the Israeli bombardment on the Strip has risen to 119, including 31 children and 19 women, and 830 injured.
On Friday morning, Israeli artillery resumed bombing the eastern areas of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and Al-Maghazi and Deir Al-Balah in the middle of the Strip, while aircraft bombed a workshop next to the police station in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza and three agricultural areas in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood.
On Friday morning, the Israeli army announced that 160 aircraft participated in bombing 150 targets in the Gaza Strip during the night hours.
For its part, the Palestinian factions continued to fire rockets, and "Al-Qassam Brigades" announced that it had fired 100 rockets at Ashkelon in response to targeting civilians and infrastructure.
The "Jerusalem Brigades" announced that it had launched several large and intense missile strikes at Netivot, Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gan Yefna, Tel Aviv and other cities.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank announced that nine civilians were killed, Friday, by Israeli bullets, including six people who were killed during the confrontations in Jericho, Ramallah, Salfit, Nablus and Jenin, in addition to another Palestinian who was killed earlier Friday by Israeli army bullets for allegedly trying to carry out a stabbing attack. At the entrance to Ofra settlement, east of Ramallah.
At least 474 Palestinians were injured during the Friday clashes, according to the "Palestinian Red Crescent."
There was a state of increased tension on Friday in the West Bank, with reports of clashes erupting in separate areas between the Palestinian residents and the Israeli forces.
Confrontations erupted in various parts of the West Bank, including Hebron, Beit El, Bethlehem, Salfit, Qalqilya, Tulkarm, Jericho, and Nablus.
The official Palestinian News Agency "Wafa" reported that the Israeli forces dispersed, using stun grenades, tear gas, live and rubber bullets, Palestinian marches in different areas of the West Bank, and clashes erupted between the two sides in the cities of Hebron and Qalqiliya, the towns of Beita and Qusra, the villages of Osrin, Beit Dajan, Kafr Qaddum, and Dar Salah, Madama, Burin, Asaka and Ni'lin, in addition to the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh and the vicinity of the Israeli "Gashuri" factories west of Tulkarm and the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus.
The agency confirmed the occurrence of dozens of cases of gas suffocation among Palestinians during these confrontations, in addition to multiple injuries with live bullets.
