As the tensions escalate in West Asia further, at least 41 people were killed, including at least 13 children in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Sunday, CNN reported citing the hospitals.
According to officials from the Al Awda and Al Aqsa hospitals, at least 22 people lost their lives in Israeli strikes at Al Mufti school in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.
Among the people who died was one infant as well. The child died shortly after arrival at the hospital despite repeated attempts to save him by the medical teams.
It is pertinent to note that over 5,000 displaced people are sheltering in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school, CNN reported citing Gaza’s civil defence.
Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, five children were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing marbles in Al Shati camp, according to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Earlier at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, eight members of a family — including six children — were killed when the Israeli military struck a house they were sheltering in, according to Al Aqsa Hospital, according to CNN. Another six people were killed when an Israeli tank shelled the Bureij refugee camp, it said.
The conflict in Gaza started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. Following the October 7 attack, Israel launched a counter-offensive against Hamas.
The war has spiralled into the region lately, with Houthi rebels in Yemen also targeting Israel and other countries in the Red Sea.(ANI)
