At least 26 people were killed on Friday night in an airstrike on three residential buildings in Khan Younès, in the central Gaza Strip, said the director of the local hospital Nasser.
The airstrike, which took place in the Hamad neighborhood, also seriously injured 23 people, the official added to the France-Presse news agency.
On October 7, the Islamist movement Hamas launched a surprise attack against southern Israel with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the EU and the United States, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure in Gaza and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water. . supplies, fuel and electricity.
Israeli bombings from air, land and sea caused more than 12,000 deaths, mostly civilians, in the Gaza Strip, according to Hamas data.
Source: TSF
