People ride past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
GAZA, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli airstrike on a house in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 22 Palestinians and wounded others on Friday, Palestinian security and medical sources said.
The sources told Xinhua that the house in Deir el-Balah was sheltering displaced people when it was hit by the Israeli attack. The dead and injured, mostly children, were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.
Civil defense crews were searching for survivors under the rubble of the house amid reports of missing people, according to the sources.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. ■
A man rides past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
Children push bicycles past a building damaged in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
A man is seen on a street with buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
A man rides past a building destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
People are seen in front of a building damaged in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that the Palestinian death toll in the coastal enclave has reached 29,514 since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
