In one of the attacks, five children, aged between two and eleven, lost their lives, according to sources at a nearby hospital.
New attacks carried out by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip have caused the death of at least 17 people, including five children and their parentsaccording to Palestinian health sources.
The latest round of attacks occurred late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, on the eve of new conversations between the representatives of Israel and those of Hamas, to achieve a cease-fire in this war that has already lasted 10 months.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt hope that an agreement will be reached, but the parties in conflict They remain very far apart on several issueseven after countless weeks of indirect negotiations.
One of the attacks hit, late on Tuesday, the home of a family in the Nuseirat refugee campin the center of the Gaza Strip, dating back to the 1948 war that surrounded the creation of the State of Israel. Five children, aged between two and eleven, and their parents were killed in Tuesday’s night attack, according to sources at the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
In the nearby Maghazi refugee camp, an attack on a home early on Wednesday killed four people and injured some more, according to the hospital.
In the southern city of Khan Yunisthe Gaza Ministry of Health’s emergency service reported that first responders had recovered the corpses of four men who died in an attack on a residential building late Tuesday.
Two other people died in a israeli attack against a house in the northern city of Beit Lahia, according to emergency service. Five people were also injured in the attack.
Gaza health authorities do not specify whether the fatalities of the Israeli attacks are either Hamas militants or civilians.
Nonetheless, Israeli authorities They say they try to avoid harming civilians and blame their deaths on Hamas, noting that militants operate in residential areas. The Israeli military rarely comments on specific attacks.
