GAZA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 22 Palestinians, including three aid workers, were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said on Saturday.
Local sources and eyewitnesses reported that an Israeli aircraft targeted a vehicle in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip with at least one missile.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense Authority in Gaza, told Xinhua that the raid killed three people inside the vehicle and two passers-by.
According to local sources and eyewitnesses, those killed inside the vehicle were Palestinian employees at the World Central Kitchen (WCK).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Saturday that the IDF struck a vehicle with a militant that took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack.
The claim that the militant was simultaneously a WCK worker is being examined, the IDF added, noting that "We emphasize that it was a civilian unmarked vehicle and its movement on the route was not coordinated for transporting of aid."
In another raid on Saturday, seven people were killed, including children and women, and several others injured in an Israeli bombing of a residential house in the al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, and there are still missing people under the rubble, according to Basal.
A raid on a residential house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the north of Gaza City led to the death of 10 people and the injury of others with varying injuries who were transferred to hospitals, according to Basal.
On Friday, the Palestinian presidency called in a press statement for an emergency meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers in light of the ongoing "war, starvation and displacement" in the Gaza Strip.
The statement, published by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, called on the international community to take action and force Israel to stop "its aggression against the Palestinian people and to submit to international legitimacy resolutions."
It stressed the need to implement Resolution 2735 calling for an immediate ceasefire, the full entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, and enabling the State of Palestine to assume its full responsibilities, "otherwise the region will continue to live in a cycle of violence, and no one will enjoy security and stability."
It held the U.S. administration fully responsible for the continuation of the "bloody aggression" as a result of giving Israel political cover to "impunity" and continuing financial and military support "to challenge international legitimacy resolutions."
Israel has been conducting a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.
The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 44,382, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Saturday. ■
