2023-12-24 21:26:16
The Hamas health ministry announced Sunday that at least 70 people were killed in an Israeli strike on homes in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
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The ministry, which had in a previous report reported at least 60 deaths, affirmed that the Israeli strike had destroyed at least three houses in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
This report could not immediately be confirmed from an independent source. When questioned, the Israeli army indicated that it was “verifying” the information.
Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the strike had destroyed “a block of inhabited houses”, and that the toll was “likely to rise” due to the large number of families there. at the time of the bombing.
In addition, ten members of the same family were killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike on their house in the Jabaliya camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
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