Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Thursday that an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 45 people and injured dozens.
Interior Ministry spokesman Eyad Bozum told the Associated Press (AP) that a late afternoon airstrike hit the al-Shihab family home in the center of Jabaliya camp.
al-Shihab’s residence was filled with dozens of family members at the time of the airstrike. Some family members had fled heavy shelling elsewhere in the area and took refuge in the house.
Bozum said the death toll will likely rise due to this airstrike because civil defense officials are still pulling bodies from the rubble and counting the dead.
Saturday’s Hamas attack killed more than 1,300 people in Israel, including 247 soldiers, and the Israeli bombardment that followed killed more than 1,400 people in Gaza, according to officials on both sides.
Israel claims that around 1,500 Hamas militants have been killed in Israel and that hundreds of those killed in Gaza are Hamas members.
Source: TSF
