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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 9: According to news from both Palestine and Israel, the Israeli army launched air strikes on multiple facilities in the Gaza Strip on the 8th, killing dozens of people.

Reuters quoted Palestinian medical staff as saying that the Israeli army launched an air strike on the Burayja refugee camp in central Gaza Strip that day, killing at least 15 people, and an attack on the nearby Nusayret refugee camp killed four people. Israel has repeatedly identified these two refugee camps as strongholds of armed personnel.

On August 8, people evacuated from the eastern area of ​​Khan Yunis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, after Israel issued an evacuation warning. Photo by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Rizek Abduljawad)

Palestinian medical staff said that the Israeli army also bombed a house in the center of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip that day, killing five Palestinians; the attack on the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis also left one person dead and many injured.

Late on the 8th, the Israeli army bombed two schools east of Gaza City. The Gaza Strip Civil Defense Department said in a statement that the attack killed 15 Palestinians and injured 30 people.

According to AFP, Mohammed Mugayir, a senior official of the Gaza Strip Civil Defense Department, pointed out that the Israeli air strikes "clearly targeted schools and secure civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip." The attacks on two schools killed more than 18 people, injured 60 others and left more than 40 missing.