Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 28

Published December 22, 2024

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes overnight and killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family’s home and at a school building the military said was used by Hamas, AFP reports.

Civil agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said in a statement that at least 13 people were killed in an air strike on a house in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah belonging to the Abu Samra family.

Bassal said that eight people including four children were killed in the attack on the school, which had been repurposed as a shelter for Palestinians displaced by the bombardment.

Bassal said an overnight strike killed three people in Rafah, in the south.

And a drone strike hit a car in Gaza City, killing four people, Bassal said.