Over 50 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes this past weekend in Gaza. On Sunday, August 4, Israeli fighter jets targeted tents sheltering displaced people within the premises of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The airstrike left at least 5 people killed and 18 others wounded. 30 were also killed on Sunday in airstrikes on the United Nations-run Al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools in the west of Gaza City.
On Saturday, August 3, at least 17 people, including children, were killed and dozens of others were injured in airstrikes on Al- Huda and Al-Hamama schools, where many displaced people were sheltering, in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) also launched a series of airstrikes in the West Bank and in southern Lebanon killing 9 resistance fighters and a military official on Saturday.
An Israeli airstrike targeted a car on Zeita-Attil road within the governorate of Tulkarm in northern West Bank killing 5 Palestinian resistance fighters on Saturday morning. The bodies of the five martyrs arrived at Thabet Thabet Government Hospital Turkarm burned and charred beyond recognition, according to the hospital’s director Amin Khader. However, one of those killed was identified as Haytham Nuriddin Bleidi, from the Tulkarm refugee camp. Bleidi was one of Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades’ commanders in the West Bank.
The rest of the bodies were identified later, among whom was Abdul Jaber Fahd Sabbagh (also known as Dahrouki), who was a commander of Islamic Jihad military wing Saraya al-Quds in the West Bank. The other three resistance fighters who were killed were identified as Ahmad Ibrahim Muhajneh, Jamal Ibrahim Abu Haniya, and Ali Mahmoud Bakr.
A few hours later another airstrike targeted an area between Bal’a and Iktaba villages in Tulkarm, killing 4 Palestinian resistance fighters affiliated with Saraya al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank. Those killed, whose bodies were confiscated by the IOF, are Yazan Saeed Abu Daghash, Thaer Ahmad Hamidi, Mu’min Kamal Qaraawi, and Mu’min Masharqa.
On the same day, a third Israeli airstrike targeted a car traveling on the main road of Bazourieh, in southern Lebanon killing Hezbollah military official Ali Nazih Abdul Ali.
The Israeli occupation has continued to assassinate officials and resistance fighters affiliated with the Axis of Resistance even after the IOF announced, on Thursday, that it was on “high alert” bracing for a response to the assassination of Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut on Wednesday.
