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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Seven Palestinians were killed on Wednesday afternoon when Israeli airstrikes began again after a five hour pause to allow humanitarian supplies to enter Gaza. The first major airstrike hit a family’s home, killing three small children. A separate airstrike killed a 4-year old child in Khan Younis, and a 4-year old in Gaza City died of his injuries.

ust after 3 pm on Thursday, which had been set as the time that a five-hour ‘pause’ in bombing would end, Israeli bombs hit the family home of the Shuhaibar family, located in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

Three children, identified as:
1. Fulla Tariq Shuhaibar, 8
2. Jihad Issam Shuhaibar, 10, and
3. Wasim Issam Shuhaibar, 9

were killed. That bombing also wounded three other members of the Shuhaibar family.

In Khan Younis, Israeli airstrikes targeted the home of the al-Jbour family, killing:
4. Rahaf Khalil al-Jbour, 4.

Another child died of wounds sustained in an earlier airstrike on a home in Gaza City. He was identified as:
5. Yassin al-Humaidi, 4, also died of injuries sustained during a strike on Gaza City.

Israeli forces announced that they carried out more than thirty airstrikes in the hours following the end of the ‘humanitarian pause’. A spokesperson claimed that they targeted a weapon manufacturing facility, smuggling tunnels and rocket launchers. But Palestinian eyewitnesses noted that the airstrikes had targeted homes, killing children.

One of the Israeli airstrikes, in Beit Hanoun around 4:30 pm, killed:
6. Ismail Youssef al-Kafarneh

And a separate airstrike in Khan Younis resulted in the death of one Palestinian:
7. Hamza Hussein al-'Abadala, 29

An airstrike on Gaza City Wednesday afternoon killed three members of the same family, killing a teen and a child. The Ministry of Health identified those killed as:
8. Abed Ali Nteiz, 26
9. Mohammad Shadi Nteiz, 15
10. Mohammad Salem Nteiz, 4
The three were taken to the Shifa Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

Israeli tanks targeted Wafa hospital in northern Gaza around 9 pm, wounding several patients. This is a rehabilitation hospital with 14 patients who have been unable to evacuate because they are paralyzed or in comas, according to Hospital Director Basman al-Ashi. Israeli troops have told the staff to evacuate the hospital, but the staff are unable to move the patients, and there is no space in any other hospital to bring them, even if they were able to move.

In an airstrike in al-Bureij, in central Gaza, four Palestinians were seriously injured. Airstrikes were reported in al-Qarrara town in northern Khan Younis, in eastern al-Maghazi, in Jabaliya targeting land belonging to the Judeh family, in al-Shujaiyeh and in al-Zawaideh. These airstrikes caused dozens of injuries – the injured were taken to Palestinian hospitals, which are already overwhelmed by the number of injured people they are having to treat. The newly-injured Palestinians have had to remain in the corridors of the hospital, since all the rooms are full.