The Gaza Civil Defense reported the death of 11 people – including women and children – in an overnight Israeli strike on a house in the city housing Palestinians displaced by the war.
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“ We recovered the bodies of eleven martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli warplane carried out a strike on a three-story house belonging to the Boustane family “, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP, explaining that the strike took place around 1 a.m. (10 p.m. UTC Friday, September 13) near the Choujaïya school, in the al-Touffah district, in the east of the city of Gaza.
” Several families » refugees
” Several families had taken refuge in the house, which was targeted by a single missile without any prior warning. “, the Civil Defense spokesman said, reporting many injured. The search continues for the missing persons ” he added. The Israeli army did not immediately comment.
The spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, devastated by more than eleven months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, also reported at least 10 people killed in overnight airstrikes carried out by Israel across the besieged Palestinian territory. Five of them were killed in northwest Gaza City, in a strike that hit a group of people near the Dar Al-Arqam school, it said. Three others were killed in a strike on the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the south of the besieged territory where tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war have sought refuge, the Civil Defense spokesman added.
Twelve months of war
Entering his twelfth monththe war was triggered by a Hamas attack that resulted in the deaths, on the Israeli side, of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, including hostages who died or were killed in captivity, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped in this attack carried out in Israel that day, 97 are still being held in the Gaza Strip, of whom 33 have been declared dead by the Israeli army. The Israeli military campaign of reprisals on the Gaza Strip has left at least 41,182 dead, according to a report published this Saturday, September 14 by the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government for Gaza, which does not specify the proportion of fighters and civilians killed.
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