UPDATE – 20 killed as Israeli jets hit house sheltering nearly 100 Palestinians in Gaza

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By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 20 people were killed when Israeli warplanes hit a house sheltering nearly 100 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources told Anadolu.

The Civil Defense Service said early Tuesday that its teams had recovered eight bodies from the Karaja family building, and rescued dozens of others, mostly women and children.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu that the building was sheltering dozens of displaced people.

The spokesman added that efforts were underway by rescue teams to recover trapped people from the building struck by the Israeli forces.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip following Palestinian resistance group Hamas' cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people.

At least 35,180 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have since been killed, and over 79,000 others injured, according to Palestinian health authorities.

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

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). An interim ruling in January said it is "plausible" that Tel Aviv is committing genocide in Gaza, ordering it to stop such acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar