Three babies among 11 left dead in Israel strike
AFP | Gaza
City Gaza's civil defence agency said yesterday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three babies up to a year old.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed 'after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp' in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (0000 GMT).
Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both oneyear-olds, and a month-old baby.
Rubble
At the scene, rescue workers and residents searched through the rubble with their bare hands, illuminating the destruction with hand-held torches.
One rescuer carried the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, footage captured by an AFP journalist showed.
Fayka Abu Hatab, a resident in a nearby building, said she 'saw a bright light, then there was an explosion, and dust covered the entire area'.
'We couldn't see anything, it all went dark,' Abu Hatab said.
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