Israeli drone strike kills 5 Gazans, including 3 children, in Khan Younis

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least five Palestinians, including three children, were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli drone strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to a medical source.

The attack targeted a group of civilians at the gate of a shopping mall and a water distribution point in al-Batin al-Samin in central Khan Younis, eyewitnesses said.

Three children were among the victims, said the medical source at the Nasser Medical Complex told Anadolu.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 attack last year by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and over 92,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

More than ten months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

The International Court of Justice has accused Israel of genocide and ordered a halt to its military operations in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge before the city was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio