The civil defense of the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday the death of 11 people, including three young children, in an Israeli night strike on the Palestinian refugee camp in Khan Younès, in the south of the small territory at war.
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“Our [personnes ont été tuées] Following the bombing by [l’armée israélienne] From the home of the Al-Bayram family in the Khan Younès camp “, around 3:00 am (8 p.m. in Montreal), Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for this first aid organization, told AFP, adding that among the eight people already identified, all of the same extended family, appeared a little girl and a one-year-old boy.
Contacted by AFP about this strike, the Israeli army made no comments at first.
The Israeli army resumed its bombings and its offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending two months of truce with Hamas in the war launched by the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement on the south of Israel on October 7, 2023.
The civil defense of the territory had reported at least 42 people killed in new Israeli strikes on the small Palestinian territory devastated by the war on Friday and which Israel has been subjecting a total blockade.
Israel has cut the entry of all humanitarian aid since March 2 into the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of diverting it. Israel says that this total blockade is intended to put pressure on the Islamist movement so that it releases all the hostages it holds, alive or dead.
Since then, the United Nations has been calling on Israel to reopen the territory with humanitarian aid, vital for the population faced with a catastrophic humanitarian situation, and exposed to famine according to UN officials.
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