4 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City

By Mohamed Majid

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike late Thursday targeting a residential apartment in Gaza City.

Gaza's Civil Defense Agency said in a statement that they retrieved the bodies of four people and several injured individuals after Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment belonging to the Abu Hashem family on Al-Jalaa Street in the city’s northwest.

The agency did not specify the number of injured or the extent of their injuries.

Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Nearly 39,500 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 91,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

Almost 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

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

*Witting by Mohammad Sio