GAZA: The Israeli military struck Gaza’s crowded Al-Shati camp on Monday, flattening homes and killing at least 40 people, according to a report that reached Arab News from the targeted site.
Footage acquired by Arab News shows Palestinian rescue teams retrieving the pajama-clad bodies of two young girls, identified as Yomna and Aya, from the rubble of their family home in the aftermath of the attack.
The footage also shows bedding and a school backpack belonging to one of the victims.
Onlookers said the house belonged to Mostafa Al-Bahloul, whose daughter recently moved to Gaza from Ukraine.
Mahmoud Awad Abu Abdallah, a relative, said that one of the victims, Aya, had Ukrainian citizenship.
The Israeli military claimed it targeted a Hamas hideout in the refugee camp in northern Gaza, Reuters reported.
But a spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a statement on Facebook that the Israeli attack killed and injured children and women.
More videos that reached Arab News from a reporter in Gaza show another airstrike targeting the entrance to Al-Wafa Hospital.
The Israeli military campaign against the Gaza Strip has killed more than 5,000 people in the past two weeks, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
