Gaza
\nGaza\u2019s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes hit two homes at dawn on Friday in Khan Yunis, the territory\u2019s main southern city, killing at least 20 people including children. Fourteen people were killed in a strike that hit the Al-Fara family home, and a separate raid killed another six, said agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal.
\nBassal said the 14 included nine children under the age of 16. \u201cThe rocket fell next to us, and we were buried under the rubble. My children and sister were killed,\u201d Umm al-Ameer al-Fara who survived the strike told AFP. Next to her, Ihsan al-Fara said there were only \u201cwomen and children\u201d in the house.
\n\u201cMy son Issa was killed, he was five years old\u2026 All my children were injured,\u201d she added.
\nRelatives combed through their home destroyed following the strike, while others overlooked a large crater filled with household debris, including mattresses and shattered furniture.
\nAFP photographs showed relatives at the European hospital in Khan Yunis mourning the deaths of children, the bodies of several of them wrapped in white shrouds.
\nThe Israeli military, in a statement giving an operational update, claimed \u201ca number of terrorists were eliminated from the air and ground\u201d in southern Gaza.
\nWhile Israeli forces continue its aggression across Gaza, recent weeks have seen an intensified air and ground assault in the territory\u2019s north, where the military claims Hamas are regrouping. Israel\u2019s aggression has killed 42,847 people in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to figures from Gaza\u2019s health ministry, data which the United Nations considers reliable.
\nVast swathes of Gaza have been reduced to rubble amid Israel\u2019s massive air and ground campaign against fighters based in the besieged Palestinian territory, displacing almost all of its civilian population of 2.4 million people at least once in the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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