6 killed, including children, in Israeli airstrike on Gaza displaced residents

​​​​​​​By Mohammed Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least six Palestinians, including children, were killed and others injured Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on an area housing displaced residents in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

“An Israeli plane targeted a warehouse sheltering displaced people in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis,” the Gaza Civil Defense said on Telegram.

A medical source told Anadolu that the Nasser Hospital “received six martyrs, including children, and an unspecified number of injured” from the attack.

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

More than 38,900 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 89,600 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, whose latest ruling ordered it 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