Israeli strike kills 6, injures 10 in central Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestine

At least six Palestinians were killed and 10 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza enclave on Tuesday, according to health authorities.

“The victims were brought to Al-Awda Hospital after the Israeli attack,” the hospital said in a statement.

The attack was the latest in a deadly offensive launched by Israel since Oct. 7, 2023 following a Hamas attack.

Nearly 39,100 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and more than 90,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

Over nine months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala