Israeli airstrikes kill Palestinians, destroy homes in Gaza

By Hosni Nedim and Nour Abuaisha

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in Israeli airstrikes late Tuesday on parts of the Gaza Strip, which also destroyed three homes.

Artillery fire also targeted lands in the central and northern governorates.

Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Al-Manara neighborhood of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, with no immediate reports of injuries, according to Anadolu.

Earlier, an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City. The local civil defense agency said the attack did not result in injuries.

Israeli fighter jets also struck a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five Palestinians, according to medical sources cited by Anadolu.

In the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah city in southern Gaza, field sources reported several fatalities due to an Israeli strike.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery continued to shell targets across the Gaza Strip, hitting land west of the Nuseirat camp and the Kleibo area east of Sheikh Zayed Towers.

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, 2023 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas.

More than 38,700 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 89,000 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 Mohammad Sio