UPDATE: At least 19 civilians killed and dozens wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza

GAZA: At least 19 civilians were killed and dozens were injured tonight in Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp and the Zeitoun neighborhood in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes launched aerial raids targeting the home of the Da’alis family west of the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the killing of 17 civilians and the wounding of dozens of others.

Medical sources also affirmed the killing of journalist Ihab Nasrallah and his wife after being targeted by the occupation forces moving into the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The journalist’s three children were severely burned in the attack.

Sources said that several civilians were injured after the Israeli occupation army targeted a group of residents in the Brahma neighborhood south of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Israeli artillery also shelled one of the towers in the Qatar-funded city of Hamad to the west of Khan Yunis, in the south.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA