UPDATE - Israeli army kills 17 more Palestinians in strikes on homes as Gaza genocide persists

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By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) – At least 17 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.

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.

Heavy artillery shelling was also reported overnight in the Abasan town east 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.

At least 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.