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Israeli occupation forces destroy an entire neighbourhood

August 25, 2014 at 12:10 pm

Israeli occupation forces destroyed on Sunday an entire residential neighbourhood in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Witnesses said that Israeli warplanes launched around 20 consecutive missiles on the neighbourhood that caused widespread destruction in the area.

According to the witnesses, ten houses owned by Abu-Marouf family and a five-story building owned by Abdul-Ghafour family were completely levelled to the ground. In addition, a large number of houses were partially destroyed. Several citizens were reported wounded.

This destruction of residential houses came just one day after Israeli occupation warplanes had demolished Al-Zafer Building, a 14-story residential apartment building, in Gaza City.

Al-Zafer was a home for around 50 families, in addition to around 30 others who had been previously displaced from Shuja’ia and Tuffah neighbourhoods, east of Gaza city.