23 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes in Gaza

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least 23 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting populated homes in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday, according to medical sources.

A source at Gaza’s European Hospital reported that 10 Palestinians from the Abu Tuaima family were killed in an airstrike on their home in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis. Among the victims were women and children. In a separate strike east of Khan Younis, five more Palestinians, including three children and a woman, were killed in the town of Al-Fukhari.

In central Gaza, five Palestinians from the Al-Salehi family were killed in a drone strike on their home in northeastern Nuseirat refugee camp. Another three people were killed in two separate airstrikes on homes in the western area of the camp, according to the same source.

Witnesses reported that the Israeli army continued shelling the northwestern areas of the Nuseirat camp throughout the morning.

Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 42,300 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 98,600 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

Mediation efforts led by the US, Egypt, and Qatar to reach a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner swap agreement between Israel and Hamas have failed over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to halt the war.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara