Palestinian women mourn over the body of a victim of an Israeli strike, outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south Gaza Strip, on December 12, 2024.AFP
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Thursday morning killed 12 Palestinian guards securing aid trucks in southern parts of the territory.
Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah, while another attack left five guards dead in Khan Yunis, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP.
"The occupation once again targeted those securing the aid trucks," Basal said. He said about 30 people, most of them children, were also wounded in the strikes.
"The trucks carrying flour were on their way to UNRWA warehouses," Basal said, referring to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
"The occupation aims to destroy all services for citizens across the Gaza Strip."
Meanwhile, children and women were among seven killed in an Israeli strike targeting a residential building in Gaza City's al-Jalaa Street, WAFA said.
Another 15 were killed in the bombing of a house sheltering displaced people in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the agency added.
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