Nearly ten Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on refugee camp in Gaza

Around ten Palestinians were killed on Monday in a bombing carried out by the Israeli Army against a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the center of the Gaza Strip, as part of the offensive unleashed more than eleven months ago after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions.

The attack, which hit a house near the Al Qassam cemetery, left at least nine dead and 15 wounded, according to the Hamas-linked newspaper Filastin. Local sources cited by the Palestinian news agency WAFA put the death toll at ten.

At least four people have been killed in a second bombing of a house in the Sheikh Raduan neighbourhood in Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, although the Israeli army has not yet commented on the attacks.

Israel launched a brutal offensive against the Gaza Strip in response to the October 7 attacks, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 250 kidnapped. Since then, Gazan authorities have recorded the deaths of more than 41,200 Palestinians, with more than 690 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in actions by security forces and attacks by Israeli settlers.