Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence agency says that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three children.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza, telling AFP eight of the dead were from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both one-year-olds, and a month-old baby.
The figures cannot be independently verified.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike.
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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