GAZA: Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed "after the bombardment of the Al Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp" in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am.
Bassal said that eight of the dead had been identified and were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both one-year-olds, and a month-old baby. At the scene, rescue workers and residents searched through the rubble with their bare hands, illuminating the destruction with hand-held torches. One rescuer carried the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, footage showed.
Israel resumed its military offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce in its war. The health ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that at least 2,396 people have been killed since Israel resumed its campaign in Gaza, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,495. — AFP
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