8 more Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in war-torn Gaza

By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least eight Palestinians, including a baby girl, were killed in two Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medics.

Six bodies, including a one-year-old girl, were retrieved after Israeli fighter jets struck a house in central Gaza City, the Palestinian Civil Defense agency said in a statement.

At least 15 other people were also injured in the attack, it added.

Two more Palestinians were killed and several others wounded when Israeli jets shelled a group of civilians in central Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said.

The new fatalities brought the death toll from Israeli attacks in Rafah in the last 24 hours to seven, including three children, the sources said.

Israeli warplanes also hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, injuring several people, including children, according to medics.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the enclave.

More than 35,600 Palestinians have been killed, the vast majority of whom have been women and children, and nearly 79,900 others injured since last October following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.

More than seven months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which has ordered it to ensure that its forces do not commit acts of genocide and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio