These civilians died in Israeli raid on their homes in Gaza City
At least 42 Palestinians, including 10 children and 12 women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that leveled three residential buildings in central Gaza City.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — “Oh God, give us peace!” Riham al-Kolak, a 30-year-old Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, wrote in a Facebook post May 15, as successive Israeli raids pounded Gaza.
A few hours later, Riham was killed while sleeping in her family’s home. Israeli raids had targeted three adjacent residential buildings on Al-Wehda Street in central Gaza City at dawn on May 16, leading to the killing of 42 Palestinians in one of the deadliest attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli military aggression on Gaza on May 10.
These residential buildings belong to the families of Al-Kolak, Abu Al-Ouf and Eshkuntana, and they collapsed with their residents inside without prior warning, in an attack the Palestinians have dubbed the “Al-Wehda massacre.”
Israel launched its aggression on Gaza after the resistance factions fired hundreds of rockets toward Israel on May 10, in response to the storming by the Israeli Police of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and attempts to evict the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem.
