Agencies
GAZA
The Israeli military has bombed a warehouse sheltering displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday, killing 15 members of one family, including nine children.
The civil defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday that 15 people killed in the overnight attack were members of the al-Ejlah family, with three women among the dead. The total death toll from the attack was 17.
Most of the people killed were from the same family and they included nine children and four women, according to health officials in the Hamas-administered enclave.
“They were asleep in their beds, kids and babies, then three missiles targeted their place,” said Abu Ahmed Hassan, a neighbour. The owner of the house was a known merchant, he said.
Israel issued yet another round of evacuation orders on Saturday, this time for neighbourhoods in central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp. The Israel military’s Arabic-language spokeman, Avichay Adraee, made the announcement in a social media post, listing blocks in Maghazi, as well as several other neighbourhoods in central Gaza, from which residents should flee.
He said Palestinian group Hamas had fired rockets from the areas and Israel’s military would respond “forcefully”.
“For your own safety, move immediately to the humanitarian zone,” Adraee said. page 4
