The Gaza Civil Defense Agency said on Saturday that an Israeli strike overnight on the Khan Yunis refugee camp had killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year, overnight.
The spokesman for the Civil Defense Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombing of the family house of Al-Bayram in the camp of Khan Yunis” in the south of Gaza around 3:00 (0000 GMT).
Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and were all of the same extended family, including a boy and a girl, both old and a month old.
An Israeli army spokesman confirmed the strike to AFP, saying that the attack was aimed at a “terrorist member of Hamas”, without giving more details.
On the scene, the rescuers and the residents searched through the rubble with bare hands, illuminating the destruction with portable torches.
A rescuer wore the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, showed sequences captured by an AFP journalist.
Fayka Abu Hatab, a resident in a nearby building, said that she “saw a bright light, then there was an explosion and that the dust covered the whole area”.
“We couldn’t see anything, everything happened dark,” said Abu Hatab.
“All our windows were destroyed, our rooms were destroyed, the house of neighbors was destroyed,” she added.
Israel resumed his military offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two -month truce in his war against Hamas.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Saturday that at least 2,396 people had been killed since Israel resumed its campaign in Gaza, passing the overall death since the war broke out at 52,495.
Friday, the civil defense agency said that Israeli strikes had killed at least 42 people through the territory ravaged by the war, which has been under a total Israeli blockade since March 2.
Israel has interrupted aid deliveries to Gaza, saying that Hamas had diverted supplies. Israel says that the blockade is intended to put pressure on the combatants to release hostages held on Palestinian territory.
UN agencies have urged Israel to raise restrictions, saying that the Gazans were experiencing a humanitarian disaster and a warning of famine.
