Thirteen people were killed and dozens of others were injured, most of them women and children, in an air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Saturday.
The agency cited local sources, who attributed the attack to Israeli forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not yet commented and the report could not be independently verified.
The building hit in the attack is said to be a former school, which has been used as a shelter for families who have fled their homes elsewhere in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October last year.
In its latest update, the Hamas-controlled health authority reported that at least 38,098 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip and another 87,705 injured since the start of the war. The numbers include combatants and civilians.
At least 87 people have been killed in the past two days, according to the official.
Previously, the IDF said it was continuing operations in several areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said several armed Hamas members who attacked soldiers were killed in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.
In an operation launched in late June, soldiers also discovered tunnels and long-range rockets that indicate “a new attempt by the enemy to establish a base in the area,” the army said.
Israel’s military has attempted to eliminate Palestinian Islamic Hamas from the neighborhood in the past.
The IDF also said that fighting continued in Rafah, in the southern part of the strip, and that “several terrorist cells that posed a threat” had been eliminated there.
In an area designated as a “humanitarian zone” in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the IDF said it targeted a Hamas rocket launcher hidden there.
Rockets continue to be fired at Israel from the coastal area, despite the ongoing Israeli offensive. A missile aimed at an Israeli city near the Gaza Strip recently landed in an open area, according to recent Israeli media reports.
During the attack on southern Israel on October 7, terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups killed 1,200 people and took up to 250 hostages in the Gaza Strip. Israel believes that around 120 hostages are still there, but many of them are probably no longer alive.
The unprecedented massacre triggered the war in Gaza, with Israeli leaders saying they still intend to eradicate Hamas.
