Israeli attacks kill 20 more Palestinians as Gaza war enters 2nd year

By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fresh Israeli attacks killed at least 20 people in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the war on the Palestinian enclave entered its second year, according to medical sources.

Eight people were killed when a drone shelled a group of civilians in Khirbet Al-Adas, north of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source said.

“The strike occurred as civilians gathered to fill containers with water,” an eyewitness told Anadolu.

Nine more people lost their lives when warplanes hit a three-story building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, medics said.

Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza confirmed the fatalities, adding that 27 other people were injured in the attack.

A medical source said a woman and child were also killed in another strike targeting a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

A Palestinian child was also killed in an airstrike on a mosque north of Rafah in southern Gaza.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 42,000 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 97,300 others injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

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

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara