At least 21 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced individuals in Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials. Among the dead were five children, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence agency confirmed.
Dr. Atif Al-Hout, director of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, reported that 28 others sustained injuries in the attack. The strike targeted the Muwasi area, a densely populated coastal camp housing hundreds of thousands of displaced people near the southern city.
The Israeli military said the airstrike was aimed at senior Hamas militants allegedly involved in orchestrating terrorist activities. It claimed that secondary explosions, potentially triggered by explosives in the vicinity, followed the initial strike.
Earlier strikes on central Gaza left eight dead, including four children, as Israel continued to target what it describes as Hamas strongholds across the enclave.
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