Gaza, Palestinian territories. Eleven people, including three babies, died in a night Israeli bombing in a field of refugees in Jan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, said the civil defense of the Palestinian territory on Saturday.
Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the Civil Defense of Gaza, reported 11 dead “in a bombing that hit the family of the family to Bairam in the Jan Yunis camp”, which occurred around 03:00 in the morning.
Basal affirmed to the AFP that eight of the deceased were already identified and that everyone belonged to the same extended family, including two one -year -old babies and a newborn.
An Israeli army spokesman confirmed to the AFP that the troops launched a bombing, but affirmed that the attack was directed against a “Hamas terrorist member”, without giving more details.
A rescuer took the lifeless body of a baby from among the rubble, show the images captured by an AFP journalist.
Faika Abu Hatab, resident in a nearby building, said “saw a bright light, then came an explosion and then the dust covered everything.”
“All our windows were shattered, our rooms were destroyed,” he added.
Israel resumed on March 18 his offensive in the Gaza Strip, ending two months after a fragile truce with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which Gaza governs.
The war between Israel and Hamas exploded after the unprecedented attack of Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which left 1,218 dead, most civilians, according to an AFP count, based on official Israeli figures.
In addition, Hamas’s combatants took 251 people hostage that day, 58 of which are still captive in Gaza, including 34 who, according to the Israeli army, died.
The Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by the Hamas government, said on Saturday that at least 2,396 people have died since Israel resumed its offensive in Gaza in March, which raises the total number of fatal victims from the beginning of war to 52,495 mostly civilians, figures that the UN considers reliable.
Israel blocked since the beginning of March the entry of humanitarian aid for Gaza, since it states that Hamas diverts these supplies. In addition, Israeli authorities argue that this fence aims to press for the release of hostages.
The UN agencies urge Israel to lift the blockade, since they claim that the population of Gaza, about 2.4 million people, suffer a humanitarian catastrophe.
