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At least 70 Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, state-run Palestine TV reported.
Ashraf Al-Qedra, spokesman for the Gaza-based Health Ministry, said in a statement that the death toll is likely to rise because the airstrike hit a crowded residential area. He added that Israeli forces are bombing the central region's main roads between camps, which obstructs ambulances and civil vehicles from reaching targeted locations.
Local sources told Xinhua that most of those killed were women and children, and it is currently difficult for local hospitals to receive more injured people.
The sources said in addition to the al-Maghazi refugee camp, the Israeli army also attacked central Gaza's al-Bureij refugee camp and the southern city of Khan Younis.
The latest tally by the Gaza-based Health Ministry on Sunday showed that the Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks had reached 20,424, with 54,036 others wounded since the conflict broke out on October 7.
Meanwhile, 15 Israeli soldiers were confirmed killed in Gaza over the past weekend, said the Israeli army, bringing to 154 the overall number of slain Israeli soldiers during its ground offensive in Gaza, which was launched in retaliation to a Hamas assault on October 7 that left about 1,200 Israelis killed and more than 200 captivated.
(Cover: Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian killed after an Israeli airstrike on the center of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, December 24, 2023. /CFP)