Several feared dead as Israeli jets hit house in Gaza’s Khan Younis

By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Several people are feared dead in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to witnesses.

Fighter jets hit a house in the city, leaving several people killed and injured, witnesses said.

The house was flattened following the strike that caused massive destruction in the area.

Civil defense teams are searching the rubble of the destroyed building for survivors, witnesses said.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has yet to issue an exact death toll from the attack.

Israel has waged a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a Hamas attack last Oct. 7, which killed 1,200 people.

More than 35,230 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, mostly women and children, and over 79,140 others injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.

More than seven months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice, which has ordered Tel Aviv to ensure its forces do not commit acts of genocide and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar