Four children killed in latest Israeli strike on Gaza Strip
4 December 2024, 10:04
The children were among five people killed, health chiefs said.
An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip has killed at least five people, including four children, Palestinian medics said.
The Awda Hospital, which received the bodies, said the five were gathered outside shelters in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The hospital said another 15 people, mostly children, were injured in the strike.
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers have mounted a string of attacks on Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank overnight, burning homes and clashing with Israeli troops.
There were no immediate reports of any Palestinian casualties.
The Israeli military said Jewish settlers attacked the village of Beit Furik after troops arrived in the area to dismantle an unauthorized farming outpost they had built nearby.
It said the settlers hurled stones, wounding two members of the paramilitary Border Police, and one group entered the village and burned property.
The West Bank has seen a surge in settler violence since the start of the war.
In Lebanon, a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has held despite Israeli forces carrying out several new drone and artillery strikes on Tuesday, killing a shepherd in the country’s south.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed keep striking “with an iron fist” against perceived Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire.
Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel last year in solidarity with Hamas militants who are fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on October 7 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage.
Israel’s blistering retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,500 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants.
Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war in Gaza has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times.
