At least 13 Palestinians, including displaced people, were killed by nighttime Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip devastated by more than a year of war, Civil Defense in the besieged Palestinian territory said Tuesday.
Of the 13 people killed, four died when an Israeli strike hit a family home in the east of Gaza City (north), the Civil Defense spokesperson said.
Three other people were killed and several injured when a tent housing displaced people was hit by another Israeli strike in the east of the town of Khan Younes (south), according to the same source.
In Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, the spokesperson reported at least four deaths after a tent was hit by an Israeli raid overnight.
Finally, two people were killed by other Israeli airstrikes, according to him.
The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it was continuing its ground and air offensive in the northern Gaza Strip.
The army, which says it launched this offensive in the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas units from regrouping there, said in a statement that it had killed dozens of fighters from the Palestinian Islamist movement in the Jabalia region on Monday. during close combat and airstrikes.
Several Palestinian fighters were also killed in the center of the Gaza Strip and in the Rafah area (south), according to the same statement.
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