GAZA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli bombing on a home and tents of displaced people west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
Local sources and eyewitnesses told Xinhua that Israeli aircraft bombed a residential house in the coastal Al-Mawasi area.
The Palestinian Civil Defense said in a press statement that the raid killed eight people, including women and children, whose bodies were taken to hospital.
In another bombing, two children were killed and 10 others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted displaced people's tents in the same area, according to the same statement.
Extending from west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip to the outskirts of Al-Nuseirat in the center of the Strip, Al-Mawasi is a humanitarian area that the Israeli army usually calls on the residents of the Gaza Strip to head to as it is considered safe.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Wednesday that over the past day, the air force struck over 120 Hamas and Hezbollah targets in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
Israel has been conducting a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.
The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 43,712, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday. ■
