JERUSALEM – Israel has killed 20 Palestinians, including nine children, and wounded 65 others in blockaded Gaza, Health Ministry officials said, following an Israeli raid on Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem that left over 300 Palestinians wounded.
The evening air strikes by Israel on Monday drastically escalated what already are heightened tensions throughout the region following weeks of aggression and onslaught by Israeli police and illegal settlers on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem that have threatened to become a wider conflict.
The death toll made it one of the bloodiest days of Israeli aggression in several years.
At least seven members of one family, including three children, were killed in an explosion in northern Gaza.
Bodies of nine people, including three children, and several other people wounded have been brought to the Beit Hanoun Hospital in the northern Gaza, Ashraf al Qudra, a ministry spokesperson, said in a statement.
Earlier Gaza Health Ministry said the Palestinians were killed “in a series of strikes in northern Gaza”. – (TRT WORLD)