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The Israeli occupation army continued to commit massacres in the Gaza Strip, at dawn on Sunday, and Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that an Israeli raid targeted a house in the Bishara neighborhood in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Strip, killing 12 Palestinians and wounding others.

Many injuries are still arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Earlier, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that a number of Palestinians were martyred and injured in an occupation aircraft bombing that targeted the Al-Massa Building near the Lababidi Junction.

The Al Jazeera correspondent added that civil defense crews continue to search for martyrs and injured people under the rubble of the Hamouda family home on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City.

Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that 7 Palestinians were martyred and 10 wounded, in an Israeli bombing on the house of the Mutair family in the new camp in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

The bombing completely destroyed the house.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced yesterday, Saturday, that the occupation army had committed 7 massacres in the Strip during the last 24 hours, causing 63 martyrs and 112 wounded. Thus, the total number of victims of the Israeli aggression since the seventh of last October rose to 31,553 martyrs, and the wounded to 73,000. And 546.

In a related context, the Washington Post quoted the Gaza Civil Defense emergency spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, as saying that estimates indicate that there are 8,000 bodies still under the rubble in the Strip.

He added that civil defense teams rarely find complete bodies, but rather the remains of bodies, most of which are decomposed and cannot be identified.

He pointed out that civil defense agencies receive appeals from families to search for missing persons every time the Israeli army enters an area in Gaza.

Warning of the invasion of Rafah

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization - yesterday, Saturday - called on Israel to refrain from launching an attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of plans to launch a military operation there, despite international warnings of catastrophic consequences of a potential invasion.

WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote - in a tweet on the X website - “I am deeply concerned about reports of an Israeli plan to launch a ground attack on Rafah,” describing this as “a new escalation of violence in this crowded area that will lead to more deaths and suffering.” .

Ghebreyesus added, "In the name of humanity, we call on Israel not to move forward with its plan and seek to bring peace," considering that the evacuation process that the Israeli occupation army intends to carry out before the attack "is not a possible solution."

The director of the World Health Organization explained that “the 1.2 million residents of Rafah have no safe place to go, nor fully functioning and safe health facilities that they can access anywhere else in Gaza,” pointing out that “many people are physically weak, hungry and sick to the point of They cannot be displaced again."

The day before yesterday, Friday, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office said that Netanyahu had approved plans to launch a military operation in Rafah, while the United Nations and the United States warned of the disastrous consequences of a potential invasion.

The Prime Minister's Office added, in a statement, that "the Israeli army is ready for the operational aspect and the evacuation of the population," without providing details about this operation that Tel Aviv has been threatening for weeks.

The American network "NBC" quoted American officials as saying that the White House is considering responding to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, if it defies President Joe Biden's warnings regarding the invasion of Rafah without a reliable plan to protect Palestinian civilians.

According to the network, American officials advised Israel to avoid a large-scale military operation in Rafah, and instead carry out smaller, more targeted missions for “terrorism,” as it put it.

The network also quoted a member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Chris Van Hollen, as saying that the Biden administration must use its available tools to pressure Netanyahu to heed its warnings, in reference to freezing military sales to Israel.

Source: Al Jazeera