28 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes, displacement tents across Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestine/ANKARA

At least 28 Palestinians were killed on Sunday as Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip targeted residential homes and tents sheltering displaced families, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

Nine people, including women and children, were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.

In the south of the enclave, an Israeli drone targeted a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing a Palestinian woman and injuring four others, including children.

The Civil Defense in Gaza confirmed that its teams retrieved the woman’s body and evacuated several wounded children and elderly victims from the site.

Israeli warplanes also struck a house in the Al-Farahin neighborhood in Khan Younis. No information was yet available about casualties as emergency services struggle to access the site due to ongoing bombardment.

Another airstrike killed two people and injured several others in the same city, another medical source said.

In the southern city of Rafah, an Israeli artillery shell hit the Mawasi area, killing one person and wounding several others. Five more people were also killed in another strike in eastern Rafah.

According to witnesses, Israeli naval forces also opened fire on the city’s coastline, but no information was yet available about injuries.

In Gaza City, two Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted a gathering of civilians in the Shejaiya neighborhood.

Additionally, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on Al-Tuffah neighborhood in the northeastern part of the city.

In the eastern part of Gaza City, a father and his child were killed in an Israeli strike targeting the Zeitoun neighborhood. A young man was also killed in artillery shelling in the northern town of Beit Lahia.

More than 51,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.