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May 16th, 2021 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda At least 33 Palestinians, including a 1-year-old baby and a 3-year-old toddler, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City early on Sunday morning, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said.
Dozens remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Gaza City’s upscale al-Rimal neighborhood, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense organization. Paramedics and rescue crews continued to seek to extract the dead and survivors.
“We’re hearing screams under the rubble,” a member of the Civil Defense told the Al-Jazeera network as the search and rescue operation continued behind him.
Palestinian doctor Ahmad Abu al-Aouf, who served as director of internal medicine at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, was reportedly killed in the bombing. A number of his colleagues held an impromptu funeral near the hospital on Sunday morning, reciting Quranic verses over his body.
Palestinian firefighters search urgently for survivors and bodies under the rubble after an intensive bombardment of Gaza City by the Israeli air force on May 16, 2021 (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Another doctor, Moueen al-Aloul, one of the coastal enclave’s few neurologists, was also reportedly killed as well.
Most of those who perished were from the extended al-Kolak family. According to the Hamas Health Ministry, a 3-year-old toddler, Adam Izzat al-Kolak. and a 1-year-old baby, Qusai Samih al-Kolak, were among the casualties.
The operation appeared to be the single deadliest strike in the ongoing Israeli operation against Gaza terror groups. The Israeli military engaged in an intense bombardment of the coastal enclave early on Sunday morning, tearing up streets in across Gaza City.
The Israel Defense Forces did not respond to a request for comment as to the operational goal of the airstrikes.
Israel has said it does not target civilians. According to the Israeli military, most of those killed in Gaza since the start of the current round of violence were either members of terror groups or were killed by errant Palestinian rockets.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday morning that 174 Palestinians have died since the beginning of hostilities between Hamas and Israel last Monday evening. According to the ministry, 47 of those killed were children.
Another 1,200 Palestinians were wounded in varying degrees, according to the ministry.
Another deadly series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip’s al-Shati refugee camp on Friday night took the lives of 10 members of the Abu Hutub family. A 10-month-old child, Omar Abu Hutub, was the sole survivor, local media reported.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strike was aimed at top Hamas officials who were meeting in the building, but said it was investigating the incident.
“During the night, the IDF attacked a number of senior Hamas figures in an apartment used as terrorist infrastructure in the area of the Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip,” the military said.
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have fired over 2,500 rockets at Israel since the outbreak of fighting on Monday, according to the Israeli army. Ten people, including a 5-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl, have been killed in the rocket fire, and hundreds have been injured.
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