UPDATE - Child among 12 displaced Palestinian civilians killed in fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza

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By Mohamed Majed
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - At least 12 Palestinians, including a child, were killed and several injured in new Israeli airstrikes Thursday against the Gaza Strip, a medical source said.

Three people lost their lives, including a child, in a strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced civilians in the southern city of Khan Younis, the source said.

Two more were killed and others injured when Israeli forces shelled a group of civilians in Gaza City, he added.

The Civil Defense Service called the Israeli military escalation “clear insanity.”

“We are no longer able to respond to all distress calls amid relentless Israeli bombardment,” it said in a statement.

Civil Defense teams retrieved four bodies and those injured as a result of the army's bombing of a house in the Sabra area of Gaza City, it said in a separate statement.

Medical sources told Anadolu separately that three Palestinians were killed in the town of Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip as a result of an attack on a civilian gathering.

Despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, the Israeli army has continued a genocidal war on Gaza that has killed nearly 45,600 victims, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants 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.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio and Rania Abu Shamala