UPDATE 2 - 32 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City amid ongoing genocide

UPDATES DEATH TOLL, ADDS DETAILS

By Hosni Nadim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 32 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, as the Israeli genocidal war on the enclave continued unabated.

Ten people lost their lives in a strike that hit a home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, a medical source told Anadolu.

The Gaza Civil Defense said that body parts and charred remains of the victims were brought to the hospital.

Two more people were killed in another strike targeting a group of civilians near a mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, eyewitnesses said.

Another Israeli strike targeting a house left 15 people dead in the northern town of Beit Lahia, another medical source said.

Four more people were killed and several others injured in Israeli shelling of a group of civilians in the Beit Lahia Project area, he added.

Another Palestinian was killed and several people were injured when Israeli forces bombed a car west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the source said.

In the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone targeted the Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the Beit Lahia Project area, causing a fire in one of the hospital buildings, according to eyewitnesses.

They added that the Israeli army placed booby-trapped robots and other explosives around the hospital.

On Monday evening, an Israeli army drone struck the hospital's power generators, causing a power outage in the facility and causing damage in its intensive care unit.

Since Oct. 5, Israel has launched a large-scale ground operation in northern Gaza to allegedly prevent Palestinian resistance group Hamas from regrouping. Palestinians, however, accuse Israel of seeking to occupy the area and forcibly displace its residents.

Since then, no sufficient humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, and fuel, was allowed into the area, leaving the remaining population there on the verge of imminent famine.

The onslaught was the latest episode in a brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 45,000 people, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023.

On Nov. 21, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on Gaza.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara and Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul