Fatalities as Israel warplanes hit residential buildings in central Gaza

Several people were reported dead in fresh Israeli airstrikes on residential buildings in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medical sources, Anadolu Agency reports.

The attacks targeted a building and two apartments in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza, witnesses said.

Medical sources said a number of Palestinians were killed and their bodies were admitted to the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza.

Fatalities were also reported when Israeli forces shelled a group of civilians in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza, local sources said.

The Health Ministry has yet to issue an exact death toll from the attacks.

Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since a 7 October attack by the Palestinian group, Hamas, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

More than 37,700 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 86,400 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Over eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which in its latest ruling has ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.

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