At least 80 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks against Gaza

By Muhammed Emin Canik

ISTANBUL (AA) - At least 80 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli attacks against Gaza, according to media reports.

The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, said Israel continued to attack various parts of the Gaza Strip, including the Nusairat Refugee Camp and Gaza City.

Many were injured in the attacks targeting civilian homes and buildings in Gaza.

The army bombed a house on al-Jala Street, leaving many residents trapped under the rubble.

It demolished a seven-story building near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where displaced Palestinians are staying, resulting in the deaths of dozens, with many more trapped under the rubble.

Civil defense teams retrieved the bodies of five Palestinians from the rubble of the building, while rescue efforts are underway.

At least five Palestinians were killed and others injured in an attack on a house in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

In the Nasr neighborhood, many were killed when the army bombed a house, according to the Media Office of the Gaza government.

The army had targeted a house in the Nusairat Refugee Camp, killing at least 36 Palestinians.

Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border attack led by the Palestinian group, Hamas, in which less than 1,200 people were killed.

At least 31,490 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza, and 73,439 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Palestinian enclave, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation.

The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid a crippling blockade of most food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz.