UPDATE - Israeli airstrikes kill 22 Palestinians on 2nd day of Eid al-Fitr

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By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) - The Israeli army on Monday carried out airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing 22 people on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

According to an Anadolu correspondent, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a group of people in Jabalia, the northern Gaza Strip.

In the central Gaza Strip, a medical source told Anadolu that five Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli aerial attacks; one in Deir al-Balah city and the other in the western area of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Also in central Gaza, an Israeli drone struck and killed three farmers in the eastern area of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, according to witnesses.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a home, killing six Palestinians and injuring others in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, according to medics.

Two more people were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a home belonging to the Najjar family in the Abasan town, east of Khan Younis.

Four others were killed in an Israeli airstrike on another home in the Khan Younis refugee camp, according to a medical source.

The Israeli warplanes also struck one more home, but no casualties were reported.

On Sunday, the first Eid al-Fitr holiday day, 64 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza.

The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing over 920 people, injuring more than 2,000 others, and shattering the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.

More than 50,200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 114,000 injured in a brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 2023.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his 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 the enclave.