GAZA CITY, Palestine

Several Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli strike on a house in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said. 

A Health Ministry statement said the attack targeted a house in the Jabalia refugee camp.

Several people remained trapped under the rubble of the destroyed building, eyewitnesses said.

Israel has launched air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.

At least 22,313 Palestinians have since been killed and 57,296 others injured, according to Gaza’s health authorities, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure damaged or destroyed, and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicines.

​​​​​​​*Writing by Mohammad Sio