Israel bombards Gaza Strip, killing 2 Palestinians

By Ali Semerci

ISTANBUL (AA) - Israel carried out an airstrike on a house in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two Palestinians and injuring 15 others.

The home was located in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

The report also said that Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Casualties and injuries were reported.

Israel also launched a series of raids on the town of Deir al-Balah and its artillery bombed areas south of the Zeitoun​​​​​​​ neighborhood in Gaza City.​​​​​​​

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

At least 32,975 Palestinians have since been killed and 75,577 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities. Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, 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 acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which last week asked it to do more to prevent famine in Gaza.

*Writing by Alperen Aktas from Istanbul