Israeli airstrikes kill at least 29 Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA STRIP: Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 29 people Friday in the Palestinian territory, devastated by war and under a total Israeli aid blockade for two months.
Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18 after the collapse of a ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting.
Nine people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP.
Another six people were killed in a separate strike targeting the Al-Masri family home in the northern city of Beit Lahia, he added.
In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen claimed the lives of six more, the civil defence agency reported.
Elsewhere across the Gaza Strip, at least eight additional fatalities were reported in similar attacks, the agency said.
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