At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were murdered early Monday in an Israeli air strike on the Al Tuffa neighborhood of Gaza City, local rescue teams said. The pre-dawn attack leveled a residential home and triggered fresh mourning and resentment throughout the besieged enclave.
Emergency workers said they pulled several bodies out of the wreckage, including many women and young children, as wailing family members watched. Witnesses said there was a distant explosion that rattled the neighborhood, followed by smoke and panic as residents scrambled to assist.
The Israeli military has not officially commented on this particular strike but continues to say that it is targeting “terror infrastructure” in Gaza. Civilian casualties, though, keep piling up with widespread criticism from humanitarian groups and international watchdogs.
The recent air raid is the addition to the growing death toll of the current war between Israel and Hamas that has witnessed a surge in air and rocket exchanges, with thousands of families being driven out of their homes in fear.
