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Three babies among 11 left dead in Israel strike

AFP | Gaza

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City Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (0000 GMT).

Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both oneyear-olds, and a month-old baby.

Rubble

At the scene, rescue workers and residents searched through the rubble with their bare hands, illuminating the destruction with hand-held torches.

One rescuer carried the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, footage captured by an AFP journalist showed.

Fayka Abu Hatab, a resident in a nearby building, said she “saw a bright light, then there was an explosion, and dust covered the entire area”.

“We couldn’t see anything, it all went dark,” Abu Hatab said.

Destructions “All of our windows were destroyed, our rooms were destroyed, the neighbours’ house was destroyed,” she added.