Fresh Israeli strikes kill 8 Palestinian children in Gaza

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - More than a dozen Palestinians were killed, including eight children, in Israeli bombings Saturday on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported.

A house was targeted in the Saudi neighborhood of the southern city of Rafah. At least six Palestinians, including four children, were killed in the attack, Wafa reported. Eight others were injured.

Israel warplanes pounded the Jaradat area east of the Rafah crossing, wounding a number of people, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

In the central Gaza Strip, an airstrike on the Nuseirat camp killed nine Palestinians, including four children, and injured 30 others, according to Palestinian medical sources.

An Anadolu correspondent said that rescue teams recovered four bodies and a number of wounded from under the rubble hours after the Israeli strike on a house in the camp.

A volley of fire also hit the Nuseirat and Bureij camps and destroyed residential squares in the town of Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip, he added.

Flouting the International Court of Justice’s provisional ruling, Israel continues its onslaught on Gaza where nearly 34,400 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 77,400 injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.

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

Hostilities have continued unabated, however, and aid deliveries remain woefully insufficient to address the humanitarian catastrophe.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi