Not Only Lebanon, Israel Keeps Attacking Gaza Until 22 Palestinians Died

Attacks on buildings that are used as shelters in Gaza/UNRWA DOCK

JAKARTA - Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip killed 22 Palestinians. Israeli forces continue to fight Hamas-led fighters in Rafah, near the border with Egypt.

Violence in Gaza comes as fighting escalates between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah forces on the Israeli border with Lebanon a parallel conflict that sparks fears of a major war in the Middle East.

Israeli tanks moved in the northern and western regions of Rafah, against Hamas fighters and Islamic Jihad, according to residents and statements published by two Palestinian militant groups.

Reported by Reuters on Tuesday, September 24, residents said Israeli soldiers blew up several houses in the eastern and central regions of the city.

The armed wing of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said the fighters attacked the attack troops with anti-tank rockets, detonated the planted bomb and mortar fire.

Palestinian health officials said the 22 people were killed in several Israeli airstrikes in the central and southern Gaza Strip. In one of the attacks, six Palestinians were killed, including three women, in a house in Nuseirat, one of the eight historic refugee camps in the region.

There has been no comment from the Israeli military.

Most of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been displaced in nearly a year of war when Israeli airstrikes and artillery have devastated most of the Palestinian enclave into rubble.

More than 41,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, according to Gaza's health ministry.