Israeli army fire kills 11 more Palestinians in Gaza

By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army launched fresh airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 11 more Palestinians, medics said.

Six people of the same family were killed when an Israeli warplane struck a house in the northern town of Beit Lahia, a medical source told Anadolu.

Four more people lost their lives when fighter jets struck a group of civilians near a shelter center in northwestern Gaza City, he said.

Medics said a former football player was also killed in another strike on a gathering of people in western Gaza City.

Israeli gunboats also opened fire toward the coastal areas of the same city, but no information was yet available about injuries.

Artillery shelling was reported in the eastern areas of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and the southern city of Rafah, according to witnesses.

The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed nearly 1,400 people, injured over 3,400 others, and shattered a January ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to escalate attacks on Gaza as efforts are underway to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.

Over 50,700 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 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.