Israel has continued its attacks on Gaza, killing 21 people, in response to what it says were rockets fired by Palestinian groups.Gaza’s health ministry said seven people were killed on Wednesday, a day after Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory left 15 dead.
Four of those killed on Wednesday were fighters with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the group said.
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl named Layan Mdoukh was killed in a blast at her home in Gaza City in unclear circumstances.
“There is a very high sense of worrying,” Al Jazeera’s Youmna El Sayed, reporting from Gaza City, said.
“Everything is closed; schools, private and public facilities have shut down, and people have limited going out of their homes.”
Rana Shubair, a Gaza-based writer, said that the Israeli attacks took them “by surprise completely”. “Everybody was asleep; we suddenly work up to huge explosions,” she told Al Jazeera.
“Barrages of rockets are being launched from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israeli towns,” Sayed added. “We also saw the Iron Dome trying to intercept these rockets.”
The hostilities amount to the heaviest fighting between the sides in months.
Israeli officials said more than 400 rockets had been fired as of Wednesday evening. Most, they said, were intercepted or fell in open areas, but Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said about one-quarter had misfired and fallen inside Gaza.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned civilian deaths in Gaza as “unacceptable” and appea …

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