(Article republished from TheCradle.co)
Al-Aqsa TV reported on 19 May that the bodies of 31 Palestinians were recovered from under the rubble of several homes after Israeli bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza hours earlier.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza announced that 20 dead bodies and several injured people arrived at the hospital on Sunday.
The deadly Israeli attacks on Nuseirat took place around 3:00 AM on 19 May. Tel Aviv claimed it was investigating the matter.
Israeli attacks persisted across the entirety of the Gaza Strip late on Saturday and early Sunday.
An Israeli drone strike on the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City killed one Palestinian and injured another Sunday afternoon.
“A series of intense Israeli airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling struck the Nuseirat, Bureij, and Jabalia refugee camps, as well as the towns and cities of Beit Lahia, Rafah, and Gaza City late last night, resulting in multiple casualties among civilians, including a journalist,” Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on 19 May.
Eyewitnesses told the outlet that Israeli helicopters fired at eastern Rafah as airstrikes pummeled the city’s center. Israeli warships also struck the coastal areas of Rafah.
Around 800,000 civilians from Rafah have been forcibly displaced since Israel defied months of international warnings against launching an operation in the city, UNRWA said on 18 May. Israel did not devise a plan for safely evacuating the city before starting its operation and seizing the Rafah crossing on 7 May – as Washington had requested.
The UN has repeatedly confirmed that nowhere is safe for Palestinians fleeing Rafah.
Hamas’ Qassam Brigades said on Sunday that its fighters “targeted enemy forces stationed inside the Rafah land crossing, south of the Gaza Strip, with mortar shells.”
The Qassam Brigades announced several attacks on Israeli forces the night before, including the sniping of a soldier in the Netzarim corridor, which splits the strip in half. They also bombarded an Israeli command headquarters east of Jabalia in northern Gaza in a joint operation with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) Quds Brigades.
Qassam fighters killed 15 Israeli soldiers in Rafah that day.
The group said in a statement on 18 May that “its forces were able to finish off 15 Zionist soldiers east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.”
Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida on 17 May said the Palestinian resistance in Gaza is prepared for a “long war of attrition” against the Israeli army and revealed that 100 “Zionist military vehicles” have been taken out over the past 10 days across Gaza.
Gaza will remain “a graveyard for invaders,” Abu Obeida added.
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