The Israeli Air Force bombed a seven story government building Saturday evening in Gaza Strip; no casualties or injuries have been reported.
Anadolu news agency correspondent quoted eye-witnesses as saying that the Israeli warplanes bombed the seven story Zourob compound in the centre of Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip which included commercial shops and government offices belonging to the Palestinian Interior Ministry.
The witnesses said the Israeli warplanes levelled the building and severely damaged dozens of homes in the surrounding area.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry, Ashraf Al- Qudra told Anadolu that “the Israeli bombardment of the Zourob compound in Rafah did not result in any casualties since the building included commercial shops and government offices that do not work during the night hours”.
Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli air force bombed a residential building consisting of eleven floors in the southern Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City; which led to its complete destruction and partial damage to dozens of surrounding homes.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 12 Palestinians were killed since Saturday in a series of Israeli raids on different parts of the Gaza Strip. The new deaths brings the number of victims who fell in the Israeli war to 2,102 people, including 565 children, 265 women and 99 elderly, as well as to injuring 10,597 others, including 3,189 children, 1,994 women and 388 elderly.
Israeli forces resumed on Tuesday evening its aggression on the Gaza Strip, in response to what it claims “Hamas breaking of the ceasefire”, which the Islamic movement denies.
Israel claims that 64 soldiers and four civilians were killed during the war on Gaza and more than 530 were wounded, mostly civilians, but the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing claims it had killed 161 Israeli soldiers and captured another.