The Wafa news agency is reporting that at least 13 people have been killed in Gaza since the early hours of this morning, Al Jazeera reports.

Here are the details:

  • Al-Shifa Hospital said four people were killed, including a baby, in an Israeli attack on a house in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City.
  • The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital said two people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
  • Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah said one person was killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack on Deir al-Balah.
  • Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis said it received the bodies of two people killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Khan Younis-Western Rafah road.
  • Four people from one family were also killed in an Israeli attack on a tent where displaced Palestinians were staying in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Wafa added.

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