An Israeli air strike on an apartment in a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday killed three people, including a six-month-old baby, health officials said.
Medics said that the three who died in the Nuseirat refugee camp were: Muhammad Abu Mallouh, the father of the infant, Alaa Zaqlan, the mother, and their child, Osama.
Later on Sunday, Israeli fire killed a Palestinian man in the northern Gaza Strip, near a UN-run medical clinic in the Jabalia refugee camp, medics said.
The Israeli army did not immediately comment on either incident.
The families of three of the dead arrived at the morgue of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah to bid farewell to their bodies covered in white.
The infant’s grandmother, Umm Hamza Abu Mallouh, said with tears in her eyes: “A man was sleeping with his wife and their six-month-old infant son in their bed. The missile fell on his bed, taking him, his wife, and his son, leaving behind six young daughters.”
Israel has recently resumed issuing evacuation orders to residents of the Strip – a practice that largely declined after the October ceasefire.
