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GAZA, May 8 (Xinhua) — At least 82 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded on Wednesday in intense Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza Mahmoud Bazal said.
He said Israel carried out an airstrike on a restaurant and a crowded market in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza, killing at least 39 people and wounding 86 others.
Earlier in the day, Israeli shelling of the al-Karama school in the al-Tuffa area of eastern Gaza killed 19 people, many of them displaced people who had sought refuge there. Witnesses said the school was hit twice.
At least 24 more people were killed in various areas of the enclave as a result of other Israeli air strikes, Bazal said.
The Hamas-run Gaza government spokesman said Wednesday that the Israeli army had carried out four strikes on civilian targets in 24 hours, with the attacks aimed at “causing the maximum possible number of civilian casualties.”
The Israeli army has not yet commented on the reports. –0–