Gaza, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- According to the Palestinian News Agency, the Israeli army has intensively bombed many areas in the southern and central Gaza Strip since the night of 17 February, killing at least 22 people.
According to the report, the Israeli army launched airstrikes on a number of residences in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on the night of the 17th, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens of others. A school in the southern city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip was shelled by Israeli forces on the 18th, killing at least two people and injuring many others. In addition, the Israeli army also launched an airstrike on a house in Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip in the early morning of the 18th, killing at least seven people.
The Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip issued a statement on the 18th, saying that the largest hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, Nasser Hospital, has ceased operation due to the impact of the Israeli army's attack, and since the Israeli army entered the hospital on the 15th, seven patients have died due to lack of oxygen caused by the power failure of the ventilator.
According to data released by the Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip on the 18th, the Israeli army's attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours have killed a total of 127 people and injured 205 people. Since the outbreak of a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7 last year, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused nearly two examples90,000 people died, more than 680,000 people were injured. (ENDS).