ISTANBUL

The Israeli army killed a Palestinian family of five early Friday after bombing a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area, city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.

The victims were members of the Abu Taima family: a couple and their three children aged eight, six, and four.

The family had been sheltering in the tent after being forcibly displaced from their home in eastern Khan Younis by ongoing Israeli attacks.

Medical personnel confirmed the deaths and said the remains of the victims were retrieved from the rubble at dawn.

Elsewhere in Khan Younis, Israeli warplanes launched two separate airstrikes on a house in the Al-Manara neighborhood. No casualties were immediately reported.

In a separate incident, an Israeli drone dropped a bomb near a group of civilians gathered by a cemetery in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis. No injuries were reported.

Israel has killed nearly 51,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave, making it become almost uninhabitable.