Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency says overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people in the southern Gaza Strip.
Civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughayyir tells AFP that seven people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli air strike on displaced people’s tents near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
Mughayyir says eight more people were killed in two other strikes on tent encampments on the coast of Khan Younis, including one that killed two children in the early hours of the morning.
The IDF tells AFP that it cannot comment on specific attacks without precise coordinates, but notes it is “operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities.”
The death toll could not be independently verified, and Hamas does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
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