GAZA STRIP (AP) – Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday has killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women, according to Palestinian medics.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Supreme Court is hearing a group of eight cases challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial move to dismiss the head of the country’s internal security agency.
Israel ended a ceasefire with Hamas in March and has cut off all food, fuel and humanitarian aid to Gaza – a tactic that rights groups say is a war crime – while issuing new displacement orders that have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee Israeli bombardments and ground operations. The war in Gaza, now in its 18th month, has killed over 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel’s Supreme Court hearing sets the stage for what will be the latest showdown between Netanyahu and the judiciary.
Any decision it makes is likely to deepen a rift in Israel over the power of the courts over elected lawmakers.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday that killed at least 25 people was a strike on a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah and it killed 11 people, including five children as young as two, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.
Another four people were killed in a separate strike that hit a house in Deir al-Balah, it said.
Another strike in the northern town of Beit Lahiya flattened a home and killed a family of seven, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
A separate strike hit a group of people in an open area northwest of Gaza City, killing four people, including one who was planning to get married next week, the ministry said.
