The first Israeli attack targeted a family home in the Al-Manara district, southeast of the city, killing 14 people. The second, which hit another house, killed six people.
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At least 20 people were killed in two overnight Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunes, in the southern Gaza Strip, the enclave’s Civil Defense reported this Friday, adding that a hospital was invaded in the north of the region.
A first Israeli attack targeted a family home in the Al-Manara district, in the southeast of the city, killing 14 people.
The other attack hit a second nearby house and killed six people, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said.
The Israeli army also invaded the Kamal Adwan hospital, in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, where they are more than a hundred peopleaccording to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
According to Wafa, Military forces forced patients to move to the central courtyard of the hospital.
Kamal Adwan Hospital is one of the few medical centers still operating in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Qatari television channel Al-Jazeera, citing sources from the Gaza Civil Defense, guarantees that More than 150 patients and medical staff are trapped in the hospital..
On Thursday afternoon, Israeli tanks fired on the hospital and destroyed an oxygen station.
The north of the Strip has suffered in the last three weeks a harsh Israeli offensive that left more than 700 dead and thousands of people displaced, according to data from the authorities of Gaza, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
Israel claims to have killed more than 200 fighters in its new offensive in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
Source: Observadora
