Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said on Saturday that an Israeli strike during the night against Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies for up to one year.
The Civil Defense spokesman, Mahmud Bassal, reported 11 killed “after the bombing of the Al-Bayram family house in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza around 3:00 am (0000 GMT).
Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and that they were all of the same extended family, including a boy and a girl, both of one year and a baby of one month.
An Israeli army spokesman confirmed the strike to the AFP, saying that the attack went to a “Hamas terrorist member”, without giving more details.
On the scene, rescue workers and residents searched through the debris with their naked hands, illuminating destruction with hand torches.
A rescuer led the lifeless body of a baby from the remains, the images captured by an AFP journalist showed.
Fayka Abu Hatab, resident in a nearby building, said “saw a bright light, then there was an explosion, and the dust covered the entire area.”
“We couldn’t see anything, everything came out,” said Abu Hatab.
“All our windows were destroyed, our rooms were destroyed, the home of the neighbors was destroyed,” he added.
Israel resumed his military offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two -month truce in his war against Hamas.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Saturday that at least 2,396 people have been killed since Israel resumed their campaign in Gaza, which raised the number of deaths in general since the war broke out to 52,495.
On Friday, the Civil Defense Agency said that Israeli attacks killed at least 42 people throughout the territory of war, which has been under a total Israeli blockade since March 2.
Israel stopped Gaza’s aid, saying that Hamas had diverted the supplies. Israel says that the blockade is intended to press combatants to release hostages retained in the Palestinian territory.
UN agencies have urged Israel to raise restrictions, saying that the Gazanes were experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe and famine warning.
