Israel killed 7 children of the same family in an air strike on Gaza. gaza news
UNRWA says Gaza has become a ‘cemetery’ as Israel continues its bombing campaign amid deteriorating living conditions.
Ten members of a family, including seven children, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Civil Defense Rescue Agency said.
A video posted by the agency on its Telegram channel on Friday evening showed its staff pulling out victims from under the debris of the Khalla family’s house in Jabaliya.
“All the martyrs are from the same family, including seven children, the eldest being six years old,” civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP news agency.
Bassal said 15 other people were injured in the airstrike.
The Israeli military told AFP that it had “attacked several militants operating in a military structure belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization and posing a threat to IDF troops operating in the area”.
It added, “According to preliminary investigations, the reported number of casualties as a result of the attack does not match the information maintained by the IDF.”
More than 14 months after the attack on Gaza, Israel on Friday continued its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
At least eight people were killed by a drone missile that struck a residential building on the market street of the Nussirat refugee camp, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Al Jazeera correspondents said four people were also killed in the airstrike on Beit Hanoun. The victims were two girls and their parents.
The bodies of three brothers were also recovered from the debris of the bombed house near Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Stuck in a ‘Graveyard’
Louise Waterridge, senior emergency officer at UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency), warned on Friday that Gaza has become a “graveyard” as lives are at risk due to heavy winter rains, hunger, terrible living conditions and ongoing hostilities. It is falling.
Speaking from the Nussirat camp, he said, “An entire society here is now a graveyard… More than two million people are trapped.”
“It is impossible for families to find shelter under these circumstances,” he said. “Most people are living under clothes, they don’t even have waterproof structures and 69 percent of the buildings here have been damaged or destroyed. “People have no place at all to escape the elements.”
UNRWA provides assistance to approximately six million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
In October Israeli politicians passed legislation to prevent UNRWA from working in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, raising the possibility of similar measures against other aid agencies.
Sweden on Friday announced plans to halt funding to UNRWA in response to Israeli sanctions, but pledged to double its aid to Gaza through other groups.
UNRWA chief Philip Lazzarini, formerly of X, said on Twitter that the Swedish government’s decision was “disappointing” and the “worst time for Palestinian refugees”.
In a resolution adopted on Friday, the UN General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an advisory opinion clarifying Israel’s responsibility to allow aid work by the UN, international organizations and third countries in the Palestinian territory. What does international law say about it? ,
Earlier this year, ICJ judges ordered Israel to stop its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, withdraw from the enclave and provide protection and humanitarian access to the people of Gaza.
Israel has not complied.
These provisional measures were part of a case brought by South Africa – later joined by several other countries – accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
