Causalities, including women, children, in Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza

By Mohammed Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Several Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and injured in airstrikes carried out Saturday by Israeli warplanes in residential areas in the northern Gaza Strip, according to Anadolu.

The Israeli army launched airstrikes on various residential areas in the Jabalia refugee camp and its surroundings, resulting in deaths and injuries to Palestinians, including children and women, said a correspondent.

The correspondent noted that aircraft targeted the vicinity of shelters in the center of Jabalia in northern Gaza, amid a state of terror that gripped thousands of displaced residents.

Witnesses clarified that medical and civil defense teams are facing difficulties in reaching victims due to the relentless Israeli shelling.

Despite civilians being killed in the airstrikes, the army claimed in a statement to have targeted “Hamas targets in Jabalia,” without providing details.

Israel has pounded Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, on Oct. 7, which killed less than 1,200 people.

Nearly 34,950 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have since been killed, and nearly 78,600 injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.​​​​​​​

Seven months into the conflict, 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 (ICJ). An interim ruling in January said it is "plausible" that Tel Aviv is committing genocide in Gaza, ordering it to stop such acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

South Africa on Friday asked the ICJ to order Israel to withdraw from Rafah as part of additional emergency measures over the war.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala