“We heard the Israeli strike, and the whole area was shaking,” said Jaber Ghabayen, whose family lived in the razed building.
“I was at a relatives’ place, and we all thought that death was near,” he told AFP.
Bassal said three separate attacks on refugee camps in central Gaza killed 15 people, and an Israeli drone strike on the southern city of Rafah killed five.
Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday said the overall death toll in more than 13 months of war had reached 43,846.
The majority of the dead are civilians, according to ministry figures, which the United Nations considers reliable.
The Oct 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
HEZBOLLAH OFFICIAL KILLED
On Israel’s second front in the north, the Lebanese security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hezbollah’s Afif was killed in a strike on a central Beirut building which houses the office of the Lebanese branch of Syria’s ruling Baath party.
Ali Hijazi, secretary-general of the Lebanese branch, “confirmed the death of Hezbollah media official” Afif, the official National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Lebanese state media earlier said the Israeli strike on Ras al-Nabaa district killed at least one person and wounded three.
