Dozens killed in Israeli air attack on Gaza refugee camp: Medical official

DOZENS of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to a medical official and Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory, reports Al Jazeera.

“More than 50 people have been killed,” Dr Atef al-Kahlout, director of the Indonesian Hospital, told Al Jazeera. He said the hospital was not yet able to provide the total number of casualties as it was still counting the victims.

The health ministry in Gaza said more than 50 people were killed and scores of others wounded in the Israeli bombardment.

“More than 50 martyrs and around 150 wounded and dozens under the rubble, in a heinous Israeli massacre that targeted a large area of homes in Jabalia camp in the northern [Gaza] Strip,” a health ministry statement said.

There was no immediate comment from Israel.

The strike comes as Israel continues to pummel the Gaza Strip with constant airstrikes, which Palestinian authorities say have killed 8,525 people, including more than 3,500 children, since fighting began on October 7 following a deadly assault by Hamas on southern Israel that Israeli authorities say killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians.