BEIRUT/GAZA: Zionist military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 20 Palestinians on Monday, including six people in attacks on tents housing displaced families, medics said. Four people, two of them children, were killed in a Zionist airstrike on a tent encampment in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi, which is designated as a humanitarian zone, while two died in temporary shelters in the southern city of Rafah and another in drone fire, Gaza health officials said.

In the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia, medics said a Zionist missile struck a house, killing at least two people and wounding several others. On Sunday, medics and residents said dozens of people were killed or wounded in a Zionist airstrike on a multi-floor residential building in the town. Another airstrike on a house in Gaza City killed seven people and wounded 10, medics said. Later on Monday, a Zionist airstrike killed four people in the Nuseirat camp in the central area of the coastal enclave, they added.

The Gaza health ministry said Zionist strikes had killed 76 Palestinians across the territory over the past 24 hours. In Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, relatives of Palestinians killed in an airstrike on tents housing displaced families sat beside bodies wrapped in blankets and white shrouds to pay farewell before walking them to graves. “My brother wasn’t the only one; many others have been martyred in this brutal way - children

torn to pieces, civilians shredded. They weren’t carrying weapons or even knew ‘the resistance’, yet they were ripped apart into fragments,” said Mohammed Aboul Hassan, who lost his brother in the attack. “We remain steadfast, patient and resilient, and by the will of God, we will never falter. We will stay steadfast and patient,” he told Reuters.

Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, said it was under siege by Zionist forces and the World Health Organization had been unable to deliver supplies of food, medicine and surgical equipment. Cases of malnutrition among children are increasing, he said, and the hospital was operating at a minimal level.

Meanwhile, a Zionist airstrike killed four people in a central Beirut neighborhood on Monday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, the second day in a row the Zionist entity has hit a target within the capital as it presses it campaign against Hezbollah. Smoke was seen rising from the location of the strike in the Zuqaq al-Blat area, a short distance from the central Beirut district where the Lebanese government is headquartered. Another 18 people were wounded in the attack, the ministry said.

Hezbollah has kept up rocket fire into the Zionist entity’s northern, where sirens sounded again on Monday. A woman was killed when a rocket struck a building in a town in the north, the Zionist Army Radio reported. The Zionist military said about five projectiles had been fired from Lebanon. On Sunday, the Zionist entity hit targets in the Beirut city limits for the first time in more than five weeks, killing 10 people in two separate strikes, including Hezbollah’s top media official Mohammed Afif. Afif was laid to rest on Monday in the southern city of Sidon.

The Zionist military confirmed it had carried out the strike that killed Afif, but did not comment on a second attack in central Beirut. “In a quarter of an hour our whole life’s work was lost,” said Shukri Fuad, whose shop was destroyed in the second strike that hit a busy shopping district, sparking a huge blaze. Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the fire had largely been extinguished by Monday morning, noting it had caused diesel fuel tanks to explode.

The strikes prompted the education ministry to shut schools and higher education institutions in the Beirut area for two days. Heba, a teacher who has already moved classes online, said the school closure was “normal, we Lebanese are used to it”. “But we don’t understand how this whole situation is going to end,” said the 44-year-old, who only gave her first name. “You could be at home and get bombed... There’s no longer any safe areas.” - Agencies