Gaza’s civil defense announced on Saturday that at least 19 people, including eight children, had been killed in several Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory. According to Gazan emergency services, a daybreak air raid on the Al-Ghoul family home in Gaza City left 11 people dead, including seven children and a woman.
“The house, which sheltered several displaced people, was completely destroyed”civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “It was a two-story building and several people are still under the rubble. Israeli drones also fired shots, including on paramedics. » Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment.
Gaza’s civil defense also explained that five security agents, responsible for accompanying humanitarian convoys, were killed by an Israeli strike while they were driving in Khan Younes, in the south of the Palestinian territory. Local emergency services also announced the death of three members of the same family, including a child, in the bombing of their house in Khan Younes.
