Israeli army kills 7 in airstrike on Rafah

ISTANBUL

At least seven Palestinians were killed and many others were injured in an airstrike attack carried out by the Israeli army Friday on the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli bombing targeted a house belonging to the Zorob family in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of Rafah, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

In a separate attack, at least two people were killed and others injured as a result of Israeli warplanes bombing houses in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday night.

The Israeli army, which also targeted the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods of Gaza City with air and artillery fire, continues its air and land attacks on the central and northern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 Hamas attack. The ensuing Israeli attack had killed at least 28,663 and caused mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

Less than 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide in the Gaza Strip, and South Africa has filed a case in the International Court of Justice. In January, an interim ruling ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that civilians in Gaza receive humanitarian assistance.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi