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The Israeli occupation army continued its raids tonight on various areas in the Gaza Strip, where 17 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in raids that targeted 4 homes housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera monitored a scene of widespread destruction in Beit Hanoun after the occupation forces withdrew from there.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza said that the number of martyrs of the bombing on the Nuseirat camp, the majority of whom were women and children, is likely to rise as efforts to recover the victims continue.
The bodies of the martyrs and wounded were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported raids targeting areas near the Zawaida and Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip.
In the Al-Sikka area, east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli bombing continued, as Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the occupation aircraft targeted two missiles.
Earlier - yesterday, Wednesday - the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the occupation army committed, during the last 24 hours, 9 massacres that claimed the lives of 86 martyrs and 113 wounded.
The ministry added that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression rose to 30,717 martyrs, while the number of wounded rose to 72,156 since the start of the war on the seventh of last October.
Ghost town
In the north of the Gaza Strip, specifically in the city of Beit Hanoun, Al Jazeera obtained special and recent aerial views of the effects of great destruction, in a place that was inhabited by 60,000 people, which has become a ghost town empty of its thrones.
Beit Hanoun is one of the towns in the northern Gaza Strip, which works in agriculture and is rooted in history dating back centuries BC.
But after 5 months of the devastating Israeli war, the homes, schools, and mosques of the residents of Beit Hanoun were razed to the ground, along with their memories and many of the meanings of life to which people were accustomed, and the occupation wants to deprive the people of the Gaza Strip of their self-evident things.
Entire residential squares have been wiped out and turned into rubble, and streets, roads and basic infrastructure have been swept away and no longer exist.
There is a paradox here in Beit Hanoun, and throughout the Gaza Strip. Under this rubble, there are martyrs who may not have been recovered, as the rescue agencies were not able to reach them. These scenes indicate that the rubble in Beit Hanoun and others in the Strip may become the tombstones of thousands of martyrs.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies