At least 18 killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza mosque

The strike on the mosque, come the Al-Aqsa Neatly being facility in Deir al-Balah within the central Gaza Strip, got right here because the war between Israel and Hamas within the Palestinian enclave approaches its first anniversary

Reuters

06 October, 2024, 09:30 am

Final modified: 06 October, 2024, 09:35 am

Not lower than 18 of us were killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Gaza mosque early on Sunday, the Palestinian data agency Wafa reported.

The strike on the mosque, come the Al-Aqsa Neatly being facility in Deir al-Balah within the central Gaza Strip, got right here because the war between Israel and Hamas within the Palestinian enclave approaches its first anniversary.

Eyewitnesses talked about the different of casualties could also rise because the mosque used to be being faded to take care of displaced of us.

The Israeli militia talked about in an announcement it “performed a exact strike on Hamas terrorists who were working within a expose and regulate centre embedded in a construction that previously served because the ‘Shuhada al-Aqsa’ Mosque within the condominium of Deir al Balah.”

The most standard bloodshed within the a few years-mature Israeli-Palestinian struggle used to be triggered when Hamas opponents attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 of us and taking about 250 as hostages, per Israeli tallies.

Israel’s subsequent militia assault on Gaza has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians, per Gaza’s health ministry. It has additionally displaced almost the full enclave’s 2.3 million of us, caused a starvation disaster and resulted in genocide allegations on the World Court that Israel denies.