Israeli airstrikes kills 12 near Kuwaiti Hospital in Gaza

Gaza December 20, 2023 (QJ) -Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry said at least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded Wednesday in airstrikes in Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
Journalists witnessed more than 10 airstrikes that hit several houses near the border.

“Twelve martyrs and dozens of wounded, including women and children, were pulled out from under the rubble after a house and a mosque were targeted hundreds of meters away from the Kuwait hospital,” said a news release from the ministry.

Footage on social media shows huge smoke and flames rising from the fire as huge explosions rocked the area.

Israel continues its relentless air and ground campaign against Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, in the 75th day of fighting that erupted after a bloody attack by Hamas militias on Israel. On the 7th of October.

The attack by Hamas killed about 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures.

Israel’s retaliatory attacks have killed at least 19,667 people, mostly women and children, in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.