The most violent for weeks .. Gaza under the fire of the Israeli bombing

Gaza City was exposed at dawn today, an Israeli bombing, which is the most violent in weeks, at a time when Israeli officials confirmed the start of the ground operation to occupy it.

The shelling came a few hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Israel, his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a number of ministers, in Jerusalem, and his affirmation of the “firm support” of it.

“The bombing is intense and continuous, entire residential squares were destroyed, and there are people under the rubble,” he said, while Palestinian sources talked about the entry of Israeli tanks to the outskirts of the city after a heavy air boat.

The Israeli government confirmed that the land operation aims to “uproot Hamas”, while observers described the attack as the beginning of a direct occupation of Gaza City.

For his part, a spokesman for the Civil Defense in Gaza, Mahmoud Belmal, said that “the bombing continues extensively on Gaza City and the numbers of victims increasing.”

He added, “There are deaths, injuries and missing under the rubble as a result of the occupation planes targeting a residential square in the vicinity of the Shawa Square,” at dawn on Tuesday, describing this strike as a “large massacre.”

The shelling during the past hours, according to medical sources, killed 62 people in raids on the Strip, 39 of them in the northern Gaza Strip, 7 martyrs in the central Gaza Strip, and 16 martyrs in the southern Gaza Strip.

The sources stated that among the dead 9 of the awaits of aid, in addition to 2 affected by their injury, and 2 were recovered from under the rubble, and a fetus in the womb of his mother.