Eight Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli strikes in in central, southern Gaza

GAZA, Aug. 16 (YPA) – At least eight Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured early Saturday morning when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and a tent housing displaced persons in Khan Yunis in the south.

Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp reported that six people, including four children, were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone bombed a tent housing displaced persons in the Mawasi al-Qarara area, north of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing Yousef Moatasem al-Bata and his wife, Saja Ghassan al-Nafar.

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