UPDATE - Israel kills 37 more Palestinians in deadly strikes across Gaza Strip

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By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) – At least 37 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Tel Aviv’s genocidal war continued unabated on the enclave, medics said.

The official news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, said 23 people lost their lives in a strike on a family home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Seven people, including women and children, were killed in an airstrike on another home in the town of Jabalia in northern Gaza, Wafa said.

Medics retrieved the bodies of three people from under the rubble of a destroyed home in the Shejaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

Meanwhile, a man and his pregnant wife were killed as a drone struck a group of civilians in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

The body of a Palestinian was separately removed from the rubble in the town of Abasan in Khan Younis.

A 13-year-old child was also killed in a strike on a tent for displaced people in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

The Israeli army, rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a devastating offensive in Gaza since October 2023, killing over 54,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Aid agencies have warned about the risk of famine among the enclave's more than 2 million population.

Last 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 crimes against civilians in the enclave.