Today at about 10:30 a.
m.
, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces shelled al-Farra residential neighborhood in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
In the attack, these forces used heavy artillery and machine guns.
As a result, Iman Mustafa Hijjo, 4 months old, was killed after being hit with missile shards, and 15 other civilian Palestinians were injured.
In addition, a number of private houses and public civilian premises were damaged as a result of the shelling.
These are: A five- story building.
The walls of the building were cracked after being hit with missile shards and bullets.
Another building, the walls of which were also cracked.
Building No.
20, whose walls as well as seven of its windows were cracked and the second and third stories (out of its five stories) were heavily damaged as a result of being hit with three missiles.
Women Vocational Training Center sponsored by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs, the walls of which were cracked as a result of being hit with a missile and bullets.
Khan Younis Primary School (D) for Girls, which was hit with missile shards.
Al-Aqsa Standard School, which was hit with missile shards.
A house owned by Adil Attiya al-Agha, which was hit with three missiles resulting in cracking of its walls and heavy damage of its second and third floors.
Yesterday at about 11:30 p.
m.
, in the same context, the belligerent Israeli Occupation Forces opened fire to Palestinian civilians in Rafah near the borderline.
Al-Mezan center for Human Rights stresses that this Israeli attack comes in line with an official Israeli plan and constitutes a continuation of the Aggression Israeli policy, which aims at killing the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and destroying their property.
In addition, al-Mezan stresses that the continued state of silence and indifference shown by the international community in regard to what is happening in the Occupied Territories encourages the Israelis to commit further crimes against the Palestinian civilians.
Al-Mezan request the peoples of the world to exert pressure on their governments in order to put an end to the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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