Israeli airstrike kills at least seven Palestinians in central Gaza

GAZA: At least seven Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, medics told Reuters early on Wednesday.

In Beit Hanoun town in northern Gaza Strip, where the Israeli forces have operated since October, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed and wounded several Palestinians. Rescue workers said several people were trapped under the rubble of a house.

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There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the two attacks reported by Palestinian medics.

Israeli forces have been operating in Beit Hanoun, the nearby town of Beit Lahiya and the Jabalia refugee camp since October 5, fighting Hamas waging attacks from those areas and preventing them from regrouping.

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More than 44,700 Palestinians have been killed in the 14-month-old Israeli military invasion on Gaza that has followed, Gaza health authorities say.