Smoke and flames rise above a building during Israeli air strikes, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City May 17, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Gaza: Two Palestinians were wounded this morning by a missile from an Israeli unmanned plane, east of Deir Al-Balah city, in the central Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian News Agency reported that the Palestinians were wounded in a raid by an Israeli aircraft, while they were on the road east of Deir Al-Balah, after which they were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city for treatment.
The Israeli warplanes launched more than a hundred raids during the continuous aggression on Gaza for the eighth day, and the death toll has risen to 197 with 1240 wounded, most of them children, women and the elderly, in addition to massive destruction due to the bombing of residential homes, infrastructure, government and private headquarters.
Further dozens of Palestinians were suffocated today, as a result of inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli occupation forces, during clashes in the Old City of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that clashes erupted, at dawn, in the areas of Ras Al-Skafia Market and Al-Uqba neighborhood, after the occupation forces suppressed a march condemning the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in occupied Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank governorates. As a result, dozens of civilians suffocated.
