Key points
- 9 Palestinians killed in Jabalia refugee camp
- IDF carried out summary executions: Gaza’s civil defence
- 10 Palestinian houses destroyed in strikes
GAZA: Gaza’s civil defence agency said that a spate of Israeli air strikes since dawn on Tuesday killed at least 25 Palestinians across the strip.
Israel resumed an intense air and ground offensive on Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting in the besieged Palestinian territory.
“The total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes since dawn today has risen to 25,” AFP cited Mohammad Mughayyir, a senior official with the civil defence agency as saying.
He said that nine people were killed and several others injured when an air strike hit a house in the centre of the southern city of Khan Yunis, AFP reported. Six more remained trapped under the rubble, he said.
Israel’s war on Gaza
Another nine Palestinians were killed in separate strikes on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Mughayyir said, including five when a tent housing displaced people was hit, according to AFP.
Five others were killed in a strike on a home belonging to the Bakr family in the Al-Shati refugee camp of Gaza City, he said, while two died in a similar attack in the southern city of Rafah.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that over 10 houses were also destroyed in the strikes, adding that an air strike also destroyed bulldozers and equipment belonging to the Jabalia municipality, AFP reported.
Gaza’s civil defence agency on Monday accused the Israeli military of carrying out “summary executions” in the killing of 15 rescue workers last month, rejecting the findings of an internal probe by the army.
At least 51,240 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 116,931 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since it began 18 months ago, Al-Jazeera reported.
