Gaza civil defence says 20 killed in Israeli air strikes

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GAZA STRIP (AFP) – Gaza’s civil defence yesterday said Israeli air strikes killed at least 20 people, including four women and three children, across the war-torn Palestinian territory.

The deadliest strike killed 10 people in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, said civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal. At least one woman was killed and 10 were wounded in another strike on a house in the same camp, he added.

Five other people were killed and 11 wounded by a “missile launched by an Israeli drone” yesterday morning in the southern city of Rafah, Bassal said.

Four others – three women and a child – were killed in an overnight strike on a house in the west of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, he added.

The Gaza Health Ministry on Saturday said the overall death toll in more than 13 months of war had reached 43,799.

A Palestinian woman reacts as victims of an Israeli strike are transported to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. PHOTO: AFP