UPDATE - At least 21 Palestinians killed in new Israeli airstrikes in war-torn Gaza

ADDS NEW ATTACK ON RAFAH WITH NEW DEATH TOLL

By Hosni Nedim

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least 21 Palestinians were killed Wednesday in new Israeli attacks in the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

An Israeli fighter jet hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing three women and two children, said one source.

Two more people were killed when a drone shelled a group of civilians in Khirbat al-Adas in northern Rafah in southern Gaza, according to another medical source.

A Palestinian girl with disabilities died from injuries suffered in an Israeli strike on her home in Rafah, said the same source.

Five bodies were recovered after two Israeli strikes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza at the Al-Awda Hospital in the enclave, said in a statement.

Three more Gazans were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza, a medical source said.

Another strike killed a Palestinian in the northern city of Beit Lahia, according to the Civil Defense Service.

Later, Mamdouh Basal, a spokesperson for the Gaza Civil Defense said four Palestinians, including two women, were killed in an airstrike targeting a home belonging to the Abidin family in Rafah.

In a separate incident, Basal reported that multiple Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the Hazein family in the new camp area in the northwestern Al-Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, last October, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 41,500 victims, mostly women and children, have since been killed and more than 96,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala