At least 19 Palestinians killed in new Israeli strikes in war-torn Gaza

By Ahmed Asmar

Israeli warplanes launched a fresh wave of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least 19 Palestinians, medics said.

Three people were killed and several others injured in an airstrike in Jabalia Nazla in the northern Gaza Strip, a medical source said.

Twelve more people, including children, were killed in three separate strikes targeting homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the source added.

One more Palestinian was killed and several people were injured in another strike on a home in Bani Suhaila town, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Artillery shelling was also reported in the eastern parts of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, but no information was yet available about injuries.

Medics retrieved from the rubble the body of a Palestinian killed in an earlier Israeli airstrike in the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

Two more Palestinians died of injuries sustained in earlier Israeli attacks in central Gaza, a medical source said.

The Israeli army renewed its assault on Gaza on March 18, shattering a Jan. 19 ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

Nearly 52,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.