The ministry statement said that scores of wounded underwent urgent surgeries, adding that all scheduled surgeries were postponed to make way for the flood of injured in need of urgent operations.

Zionist regime’s warplanes have launched hundreds of air raids on civilian houses and infrastructure in various areas of the Gaza Strip leading to hundreds of casualties and vast destruction, according to the interior ministry spokesman Iyad al-Buzom.

Local sources said that an israeli air strike on a house in eastern Rafah in southern Gaza Strip killed 12 of its inhabitants and wounded 17 others.

Buzom said that civil defense teams and police forces were exerting big efforts to rescue those under the rubble of the destroyed house, adding that among the victims are women and children. (ILKHA)