GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s civil defense agency has said that Israeli attacks hit two homes at dawn on Friday in Khan Younis, the area’s main southern city, killing around 20 people including kids.
The agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said that at least 14 people were killed in a strike that hit the house of the Al-Fara family, and a separate air strike killed another 6 people. Bassal added that the 14 included nine children under the age of sixteen.
AFP showed relatives at the European hospital in Khan Younis mourning the deaths of kids, the bodies of several of them enfolded in white blankets.
Earlier, Gaza’s civil defence agency said that 17 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and dozens wounded when an Israeli airstrike targeted a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area on Thursday.
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The Israeli military struck the Al-Shuhada school, located in the Nuseirat refugee camp as relentless bombardment continued in Gaza. Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the civil defence agency, confirmed the death toll, which was corroborated by Al-Awda Hospital.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s civil defence agency said that more than 770 Palestinians have been killed in the northern part of the besieged territory since Israel launched its current military operation. “Since the start of the military operation in northern Gaza, more than 770 people have been killed, with many still buried under the rubble,” said Bassal.
