Aerial bombardment and artillery fire also hit today Gaza Stripwhere the Israeli army continues its operations against it Hamasfollowing the deadly attacks of the previous days in a displaced persons camp and a school where civilians had taken refuge.

The Islamist movement, denouncing Israel’s “massacres” against “unarmed civilians” in the enclave, announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing from indirect ceasefire negotiations.

Today, eyewitnesses and rescuers spoke about bombings in many districts of Gaza City.

A strike in the al-Maghazi camp, in the central sector of the enclave, killed five people, including three children, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced. Israeli artillery also targeted the area around the Nuseirat camp in the same sector. On Sunday, 22 people were killed in Nuseirat, Hamas’ health ministry said, when a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, where thousands of displaced people had taken refuge, was bombed. The Israeli army assured that it “hit terrorists”. This was the fifth school bombed in eight days in the Gaza Strip.

In the south, military helicopters pounded the outskirts of Khan Younis and her Rafaaccording to eyewitnesses.

The Israeli army announced that yesterday it “destroyed a terrorist cell, armed with rocket launchers, in close combat” in the Rafah sector. Also “many terrorists were killed” in the central Gaza Strip. The ground forces are supported by the Israeli navy in the Mediterranean, which “continues to strike terrorist targets,” he added.