CAIRO: Gaza’s civil defense agency has said an Israeli attack in the early hours of Saturday killed around 15 people from a Palestinian family, including nine kids and three women. AFP reported that the air strike targeted the house of the Ajlah family in Al-Zawaida neighborhood of central Gaza, civil defense spokesperson Mahmud Bassal.
Bassal confirmed that at least fifteen people have been killed in the Israeli attack on the Ajlah family home. The spokesperson gave a list of those killed, including 9 kids and 3 women. An eye witness said the attack took place shortly following midnight. Ahmed Abu Al-Ghoul said that the three rockets hit the house directly. Foreign media footage of the aftermath, captured following dawn, showed rescuers searching for people under piles of collapsed compound. Over 10 months of conflict between Hamas and Israel has left vast swathes of Gaza in wrecks. Israel’s military offensive has killed around 40,005 people in Gaza, according to the health ministry.