UPDATE - 16 more Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israeli forces' unabated onslaught continues

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By Hosni Nedim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least 16 more Palestinians were killed as Israeli forces continued their onslaught Tuesday on the Gaza Strip.

Witnesses reported to Anadolu that an Israeli drone targeted a group of people in Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza, resulting in the deaths of three Palestinians and injuries to several others.

They added that the Palestinians were on their way home to see the destruction following previous Israeli airstrikes.

Sounds of explosions were also heard as Israel continued to destroy and detonate more Palestinian homes in northern Gaza, said witnesses.

A medical source told Anadolu that a Palestinian woman died from wounds sustained in a previous Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the western part of Gaza City.

Separately, a Palestinian was killed and two injured in an airstrike on the town of Al-Nasr in northeastern Rafah, in the southern part of the enclave, according to a medical source.

The Israeli army, meanwhile, blew up several buildings in the al-Jneinah neighborhood of eastern Rafah city, as well as targeted other areas with artillery shells.

The army fired artillery shells in central Gaza, particularly in the northwestern areas of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

A medical source told the Turkish news agency that six Palestinians were killed and several injured after fighter jets bombed a school in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City in the northern part of the Strip.

Search operations are ongoing at the site, according to witnesses.

Two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an airstrike that targeted the Al-Jazeera Club, which shelters displaced people in central Gaza City, according to medics who spoke to Anadolu.

And Gaza’s Civil Defense said its teams retrieved the bodies of three people who were targeted by drones in northern Rafah.

Since launching its genocidal war on Gaza following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, in October 2023, Israel has killed more than 44,500 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and injured an excess of 105,000, according to official figures.

The second year of the genocide in Gaza has drawn widespread international condemnation that notes that starvation tactics and blocking humanitarian aid deliveries amount to deliberate attempts to destroy an entire population.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants on Nov. 21 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its actions in Gaza, which have drawn mounting international condemnation.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar and Rania Abu Shamala