GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defense agency reported on Wednesday at least 17 people, including a baby, were killed in Israeli air strikes across the war-torn region.
The Israeli military confirmed one of its soldiers killed, and another seriously injured during combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for civil defense says a one-day-old infant was killed by a nighttime shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp. Two more people were killed by a shell west of the camp in central Gaza.
A drone attacked a school-turned-shelter for the displaced in the northern city of Beit Lahia, killing two including a 15-year-old girl.
Since the beginning of October, Israel has been conducting an operation in northern Gaza aimed at preventing Hamas from organizing itself. The military action has made thousands of people run toward Gaza City and nearby areas, at least 100,000 according to Louise Wateridge, the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, spokesperson.
In Jabalia, emergency workers on Tuesday retrieved seven bodies from under rubble caused by an air strike on a house the night before. Meanwhile, a person was killed near a school in Rafah, southern Gaza, when another air strike targeted a group of Palestinians.
Strikes on a residential building in Gaza City left two people dead, and a first responder from the civil defense was killed while trying to evacuate the wounded in the same area. Another air strike in Gaza’s Zeitun neighborhood killed one person and wounded several others.
The war in Gaza broke out after an attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians. In retaliation, the military campaign by Israel has killed nearly 44,000 people in Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, which the UN deems reliable.
