Palestinian Moein Abu Odeh searches for clothes in the rubble of a house destroyed by Israel's military offensive, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 18, 2024. (Credit: Hussam Al-Masri/Reuters)
The Gaza Strip's Civil Defense announced on Wednesday morning that 10 people, including a baby, were killed in Israeli strikes on Palestinian territory. In a statement, the Israeli army reported the death of one of its soldiers in fighting in northern Gaza, in which an officer was also seriously wounded, according to the army.
Night-time Israeli artillery fire killed a baby in the Nousseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. Two other people were killed near a well to the west of the same camp, he added.
A drone strike also killed two people, including a 15-year-old girl, at a school turned into a refuge for displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahia, in the north. A sixth person died when a group of Palestinians were targeted near another school, east of Rafah (south). Four others were injured.
Also, according to Bassal, strikes on a residential building killed two people and wounded others in the al-Sabra district of Gaza City (north), while a member of the Civil Defense team trying to evacuate the wounded died in the same district.
In Zeitoun, another district of the city, an air strike killed another person and injured several others, added the Civil Defense spokesperson.
The war was triggered by a surprise attack launched on Oct. 7, 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
This attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people on the Israeli side, the majority of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures and including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
That day, 251 people were kidnapped. A total of 97 remain hostages in Gaza, 34 of whom have been declared dead by the army.
Nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory military campaign in the Gaza Strip, the majority of them civilians, according to data from Gaza's Health Ministry.