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INTENSE ISRAELI BOMBING OF GAZA KILLS DOZENS OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANSHH Honourable Lady, Spouse of The Sultan of Oman Extends Greetings on Mother’s Day

Dozens of Palestinian civilians, the majority of them children and women, were Thursday killed and injured in the intense and ongoing occupation bombing of Gaza City, as the brutal Israeli aggression against Palestinians enters its 167th day in a row.

For the fourth day in a row, the occupation army continues a massive incursion and invasion into Al-Rimal neighborhood, and inside and around the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, amid missile and artillery shelling and gunfire, which led to the killing of dozens of citizens, while others were left with separate injuries as a large number of victims are still under the rubble.

The occupation army blew up the specialized surgical building in the Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, amid a complete loss of communication with all medical teams inside the complex in Gaza City.

The Israeli army threatened everyone inside to evacuate it immediately as families inside appealed to the Red Cross and international institutions to go to the complex to rescue them.

Dozens
of citizens were killed, and others were injured, in a violent artillery shelling that targeted homes owned by Abu Hasira family, and others on Al-Rashid Street and its surroundings in Al-Mina area, west of Gaza City.

The occupation Apache helicopter opened fire on houses surrounding Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City.

The western neighborhoods of Gaza City, Tal al-Hawa, al-Rimal, Sheikh Ajlin, and al-Shati camp are seeing intense artillery shelling.

An airstrike targeted a house in al-Shati Camp, west of Gaza City, killing and injuring dozens.

A number of citizens were killed when the occupation bombed a house owned by Saidam family in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes also bombed a house owned by Kurd family next to the Jaffa Mosque in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens.

Nine people were killed, and a large number are still trapped under the rubble, after Israeli aircraft bombed a house owned by Abu Al-Arabi family in the new
camp, west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes bombed for the fourth time on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Her Highness the Honourable Lady Assayida Ahd Abdullah Hamad Al Busaidi, Spouse of the Sultan of Oman, has expressed greetings on the occasion of Mother’s Day to mothers in the Sultanate of Oman and the world. The message reads as follows:

‘We are delighted to greet mothers in our beloved homeland Oman and mothers in all parts of the world on the occasion of Mother’s Day, which falls on the 21st of March every year. We wish all mothers prosperity, success, dignity, a safe and secure life marked with power to contribute effectively to all development programmes.

The celebration of this auspicious day enhances sentiments of gratitude and reverence. It deepens the feelings of love and pride and it sheds light on the great roles of the mother, as well as the high status accorded to the mother by Allah the Almighty and our noble Prophet.

On this occasion, as we live these blessed days of the holy month of Ramadan-the month of uprightness, mercy and benevolence-we pray to Allah the Almighty to protect mothers in
all parts of the Globe, notably our people in the occupied land of Palestine. We pray to Allah the Almighty to bless them with peace, security and liberation.

Happy new year to mothers in the whole world.’

Source: Oman News Agency

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