Gaza, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- According to the Palestinian News Agency, Israeli forces intensively bombed several areas in the southern Gaza Strip on the same day, killing at least 18 people.
According to the report, the Israeli army carried out several airstrikes on the area around the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on the 9th, killing at least eight people. At least two people were killed in an Israeli attack on a school east of Khan Younis that day. In addition, the Israeli army launched air strikes on two residences in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, in the early morning of the 9th, killing at least 8 people and wounding 13 others.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Philip Lazarini, told ** on the 9th that the current humanitarian situation in Rafah is "desperate", and any major Israeli military operation in Rafah in the future may bring more disasters to civilians.
According to data released by the Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip on the 9th, the Israeli army's attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours have killed 107 people and injured 142 people. Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7 last year, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused more than 2790,000 people died, more than 670,000 people were injured. (ENDS).