Occupation attacks Khan Younis neighborhoods after Iranian missile barrage on Israel

The Israeli military shelled several neighborhoods in the north and south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. 

In the Miraj neighborhood, eyewitnesses told Mada Masr that tanks surrounded the designated humanitarian area and began firing artillery shells at homes and the tents of civilians. The Occupation military also bombed some houses with airstrikes, other eyewitnesses said. 

In the Manara neighborhood, Mada Masr’s correspondent in Gaza said that “many martyrs” could be seen in the streets and on the roads. “The houses of more than one family were bombed,” he added.

Several members of the family of one of Mada Masr’s correspondents in Gaza were in the area when Israeli forces opened fire. Three of them were killed.

According to a statement published by the Civil Defense Force in Gaza, four houses were targeted in the Qizan al-Najjar and Manara and Miraj areas. 

When ambulances tried to move into the area, Israeli drones opened fire on them, forcing the medical teams to withdraw, the statement added.

The exact scale of those injured and killed is still unclear. However, the Civil Defense Forces stated that there are dozens of people injured and martyred still under the rubble. 

The Qizan al-Najjar area is densely crowded with tens of thousands of citizens, who have been displaced several times due to the Occupation military’s unrelenting attack on Gaza for nearly a year.