Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least eight people, including a 17-year-old who died in an attack on a southern town.
Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, as a ceasefire agreement that had largely halted the fighting for two months collapsed over disagreements with Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose 2023 attack triggered the war.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP on Sunday that “at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli air strikes since dawn.”
Bassal said three people were killed when a group of civilians was struck in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood, and three more in a strike that hit a residential building in the central Bureij refugee camp.
Two people died in the southern Khan Younis area, Bassal said, including a 17-year-old boy in a strike on the town of Khuzaa and another person killed when Israeli forces hit fishing boats off the coast.
In a separate incident near Khan Younis, a strike wounded at least 12 people, most of them children, in Al-Mawasi, the civil defense spokesman added.
According to figures released Saturday by the health ministry in Gaza, the renewed Israeli campaign since last month had killed at least 2,111 Palestinians, taking the overall death toll in the territory to 51,495 people since the war began.
The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel says the renewed military campaign aims to force Hamas to free the remaining captives.
AFP
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