Six casualties as a result of Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip

 GAZA, — Palestinian medical sources said that six Palestinians were wounded on Friday in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli occupation strikes on in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Medical services coordinator, Adham Abu Selmeyyah, said in a special statement to PIC that the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received on Friday at noon four casualties, including two women, from the same family who were wounded when their home in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip was shelled. He added that their wounds were moderate.

He also said that a girl and a young man were treated at Naser hospital for light wounds they sustained as a result of an Israeli occupation airstrike that targeted east Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In addition to the two air strikes carried out by the Israeli occupation against targets in the central and southern Gaza Strip which resulted in casualties, the PIC correspondent said that a number of airstrikes were also carried out near the Kisofim  crossing.

The Israeli escalation came soon after Israeli claims that a Grad rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip targeting western Negev.