While the UN declared that only women and children have been killed in scores of recent Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territory, Gaza rescuers said that a pre-dawn Israeli airstrike on Friday killed ten members of the same family.
The UN rights office report also cautioned that the “forcible transfer” of Palestinians into ever-tinier areas of the Palestinian territories, where the war started eighteen months ago, was a result of growing Israeli evacuation orders.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the attack that killed members of the same family in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, adding in a separate statement that it had struck approximately 40 “terror targets” across the Palestinian territory over the past day.
Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.
Since then, more than 1,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory to which Israel cut off aid more than a month ago.
“Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli air strike that targeted the Farra family home in central Khan Yunis,” Gaza civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
Medics and rescuers transported the dead and injured to hospital in multiple ambulances, with several bodies wrapped in white shrouds and blankets, AFP footage of the aftermath showed.
The house appeared to be severely damaged in the footage. Twisted metal and broken slabs of concrete littered the place.
In Khan Yunis, witnesses reported intense and ongoing Israeli tank fire.
Additionally, the civil defense agency stated that an Israeli strike in the northern city of Beit Lahia’s Al-Atatra neighborhood killed two persons.
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