In this file photo, Palestinians take shelter from the Israeli bombardment at a school in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. AP
The civil defense said the dead in Khan Younis include five people who were killed in a strike on the Abu Harb family house in the Qizan al-Najjar area. The strike also wounded at least 10 others, it said.
Another strike hit a house in the Tahlia area in Khan Younis, killing at least two people and wounding five others, according to the rescue service. The casualties from both strikes were confirmed in hospital records in Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, the Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp said the strike hit a group of people in the nearby Bureij camp and also wounded six other Palestinians.
The Health Ministry said Gaza’s hospitals received 12 dead and 43 wounded Palestinians over the last 24 hours.
The latest fatalities brought the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began to 41,467, and 95,921 wounded, mostly women and children.
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