Palestinian casualties of an Israeli strike on an apartment at the Nuseirat refugee camp, receive care at Al-Awda hospital in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Gaza: At least 12 Palestinians, including an infant, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses reported Saturday.
Eyewitnesses told Xinhua that an Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at an apartment in the al-Sawahra area, west of the Nuseirat camp.
Al-Awda Hospital in the camp said in a press statement that 12 bodies arrived at the hospital, including an infant, children, and women, and seven others were wounded from the airstrike.
According to local sources, Omar Saeed Aqel, the Nuseirat police chief, and his entire family were killed in the attack.
It brings the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes and gunfire in Gaza since dawn on Saturday to about 70, according to medical sources.
At least 7,938 Palestinians have been killed and 28,444 others injured since Israel renewed its intensive strikes in Gaza on March 18, bringing the total death toll since October 2023 to 58,765, and injuries to 140,485, Gaza-based health authorities said Saturday.
