Israeli airstrike on Gaza refugee camp kills 7, including 3 children

By Nour Abuaisha

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least seven Palestinians were killed, including three children, and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday targeting a home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

“The airstrike hit the home of Dr. Akram Al-Najjar, a professor at the Open University of Al-Quds in Jabaliya, killing seven people, including three children and two women,” Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense, said in a statement.

Earlier in the day, at least 40 people were killed and 60 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, which Israel has designated as a “humanitarian safe zone” for displaced civilians in Gaza.

Gaza’s civil defense service said the Israeli missiles set refugee tents ablaze and caused craters as deep as nine meters (29 feet) in the area.

The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 41,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 95,000 since an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, according to local health authorities.

An ongoing blockade of the enclave has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine, leaving much of the region in ruins.

Israel faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio