Israeli airstrike kills a woman, injures five in Beit Hanoun, death toll hits 15

06 August 2022

A Palestinian woman was killed this evening and five others wounded in an Israeli airstrike which hit a civilian car in the neighborhood of Om al-Nasr, near the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to local sources.

The Ministry of Health said in an update that the death toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip which started yesterday has reached 15, while the number of wounded has reached 125.

WAFA correspondent said Na’ama Qaida, a Palestinian woman, was killed in an airstrike which targeted a civilian car in Om al-Nasr, while Hasan Mohammad Mansour, a 25-year-old Palestinian man, was killed a few minutes earlier in an Israeli airstrike which pounded an outskirt east of the town of Jabalia, north of the Strip. Others were also wounded in the strike.

Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling were also reported in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, as well as in many areas across the coastal enclave, which entered today its second day under Israel’s military aggression.