UPDATE 2 - Israeli army kills 22 more Palestinians in strikes on homes as Gaza genocide persists

UPDATES DEATH TOLL, ADDS DETAILS

By Ahmed Asmar and Betul Yilmaz

ANKARA / ISTANBUL (AA) - At least 22 more Palestinians were killed in deadly Israeli airstrikes on civilian homes across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as Israel continued its genocide despite international calls for a ceasefire.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, said 10 people were killed in a single deadly airstrike on a home in central Gaza City.

Three civilians were also killed in another strike on a home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, the sources said.

Four more people lost their lives in Israeli drone strikes in the Al-Zaytun and Shujaiya​​​​​​​ neighborhoods in Gaza City.

Israeli fighter jets also hit another home in the northern town of Jabalia, leaving three people dead, a medical source told Anadolu.

The source said a Palestinian died of his wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli strike on eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Another Palestinian was killed, and many others were injured in a drone strike in the Al-Qarara town of Khan Younis. In the west of the city, army forces shelled a fishing vessel off the coast of al-Mawasi, injuring two people.

Heavy artillery shelling was also reported overnight in the Abasan, Al-Fukhari, and Al-Manara towns of Khan Younis and the outskirts of the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, but no information was yet available about casualties.

The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18, shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.

More than 51,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023.

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.