Israeli attacks kill several Palestinians in Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Palestine

At least eight Palestinians were killed Thursday as the Israeli army continued its offensive on the Gaza Strip, medical and local sources told Anadolu.

Two people were killed in an airstrike on a gathering near the Al-Saraya junction in central Gaza City, according to sources.

They added that another Palestinian was killed in an airstrike behind a UN-run supply center in the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.

The sources reported that Israeli army gunfire claimed the lives of three Palestinians in the eastern Jabalia refugee camp.

Furthermore, a Palestinian man was killed by army fire while inspecting his house in Al Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip, the sources added.

In the European Gaza Hospital, a Palestinian girl died from an injury sustained in an airstrike targeting a home in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli airstrikes targeted several neighborhoods Thursday in Gaza City, injuring an unspecified number of people, according to Anadolu.

Israeli artillery also shelled the Bureij refugee camp in the morning, the town of Al Mughraqa and the city of Zahraa in central Gaza.

Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by the Palestinian group, Hamas, in which less than 1,200 people were killed.

Nearly 34,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza, and more than 76,800 have been injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio in Istanbul