Children among 8 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attack on central Gaza

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least eight Palestinians, including children, were killed and several others injured in overnight Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, sources said on Friday.

Medical sources told Anadolu that the bodies of eight Palestinians, including children, were transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

Israeli forces fired intermittent artillery shells into the eastern areas of Deir al-Balah and the southeast areas of the Bureij camp.

In Gaza City, eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli vehicles fired smoke bombs near the Al-Musalba area, south of the Zeitoun neighborhood.

In the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army bombed residential buildings west of Rafah city, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

This coincided with violent clashes between Palestinian resistance factions and Israeli forces in Rafah's western areas.

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 attack by Hamas.

More than 38,800 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 89,400 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 Ikram Kouachi