An ambulance driver and a cameraman in a Palestinian TV channel are among the forty victims of Charaya. The ambulances could not get this close to the border area with Israel because of the intensity of the shelling.
Moreover, in the Palestinian enclave, five other people were killed in Israeli raids.
The spokesman of the Palestinian emergency services, Ashraf al-Qoudra, expects that the death toll in the territory still climbs Sunday with heavy shelling also occurred in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of the Gaza city and in Jabaliya in the north of the Ghaza Strip.
"The vast majority of people killed and injured so far are civilians," he said, assessing more than 3,000 the number of casualties in 13 days.
Seven Israelis have died since the beginning of the offensive against Ghaza in July 8: Two civilians and five soldiers. The soldiers were all killed since the start of the ground offensive launched on Thursday, four were killed Saturday and another on the night of Thursday to Friday, a victim of "friendly fire."
Since the launch of the Border Protective operation, which aims to neutralize the rocket fire from the Ghaza Strip, 1,333 missiles have hit Israel, while 360 were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, according to the Israeli army.
