Air raids target homes, displacement tents in Gaza Strip as destruction continues unabated
At least 19 Palestinians, including a child, were killed Sunday in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting residential areas and displacement tents across the Gaza Strip, according to medical and local sources.
Israeli warplanes struck a family home in the Al-Sawarkah area west of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 10 people.
Five others were killed and several more injured in a separate airstrike that hit a house on Hamid Street in western Gaza City.
In the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, a young girl was killed and multiple people were injured when Israeli forces bombed a family home near the Islamic Complex Mosque.
In southern Gaza, Nasser Medical Complex medics confirmed the deaths of three people following an Israeli strike on a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces blew up several residential buildings in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City causing extensive destruction to nearby property.
Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, killing nearly 57,900 Palestinians so far, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages and a spread of disease.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
