45 Palestinians killed in IDF airstrike on residential building in Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp

Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023.  (IBRAHIM HAMS / AFP)
Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (IBRAHIM HAMS / AFP)

The Israeli military bombarded a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 45 people and injuring dozens more, Gaza’s Hamas-run interior ministry says.

A late-afternoon airstrike hit the al-Shihab family house at the center of the Jabaliya camp, interior ministry spokesperson Eyad Bozum tells The Associated Press. The al-Shihab house was packed with dozens of relatives at the time of the airstrike, Bozum says. Some family members had fled heavy bombing from other parts of the Gaza Strip and taken refuge there.

Bozum says the death toll was likely to rise from that airstrike as civil defense workers were still pulling bodies from the rubble and counting the dead.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike. The IDF says it is targeting Hamas and that the terror group embeds itself and its weapons within civilian populations.

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