Massacre in Deir al-Balah: Deaths and wounded in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip

Fourteen civilians have been killed since dawn on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip.

The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip reported that 10 people were killed and several others wounded as a result of an Israeli airstrike early Thursday morning on a barracks housing displaced people near a water reservoir in the Al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army also carried out bombing operations against a number of residential buildings east of the town of Al-Qarara, located northeast of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

In another development, Israeli aircraft targeted two homes in the Zarqa area in the northern Gaza Strip, one belonging to the Maqat family and the other to the Qanou family, killing all those inside.

Israeli aircraft also launched an airstrike on a house in the Tel al-Zaatar area of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza, causing extensive damage.

In the same context, civil defense crews, through strenuous efforts, were able to extinguish a massive fire that broke out in the Al-Ragheb Tower, located in the Al-Karama area, northwest of Gaza, after it was directly targeted by the occupation forces.