ISTANBUL: At least four Palestinians were killed and 40 others injured in an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip early Monday, according to local media.
A fire erupted in the tents in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, located in the central city of Deir al-Balah, as a result of the attack, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Officials from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told WAFA that many civilians were killed and injured in the Israeli attack, noting that the hospital was filled with wounded.
According to a statement from the government media office in Gaza, this was the Israeli army’s seventh attack targeting the tents of displaced civilians at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
More than 42,200 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 98,400 injured, according to local health authorities.
The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food,
clean water, and medicine.
Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.
Source: Anadolu Agency