Israeli bombing of Shujaiyya market kills 17 despite ceasefire | Maan News Agency
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Despite a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire that
began at 3:00 p.m., Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon shelled a
market in Shujaiyya as well as number of homes across the Gaza Strip,
killing at least 33.
Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf
al-Qidra said around 6 p.m. that an Israeli airstrike had hit Shujaiyya
market, killing at least 17, including a journalist, and injuring 200.
A
Ma'an reporter on the scene said that Israeli artillery had fired
several shells at civilians in the market, adding that ambulances and
civilian vehicles were still transporting the wounded and the killed to
the al-Shifa Hospital.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that
the dead including a journalist and two paramedics, as well as a member
of the civil defense crews.
(MaanImages/Ministry of Health)
Oh god. The Market. People are literally flattened. Warning graphic. 