UPDATE - 9 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on southern Gaza Strip

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By Anadolu staff

At least nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Saturday in an Israeli attack in the southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu learned.

Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that they received nine Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army bombing of two houses in southern Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army targeted a house in the Musabah area, north of Rafah, and another in Khan Younis.

Israel has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

Besides mounting casualties, the military campaign has turned much of the enclave of 2.3 million people into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless and at risk of famine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi