A Gaza civilian was killed and at least 20 others wounded, among them seven children, when an Israeli air strike hit a home next to a militant training ground, medics said Friday. The raid destroyed a home in eastern Gaza City, killing Bahjat al-Zaalan, 37, and injuring many of his family members, more than half of them children, emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya said.
The strike, which targeted a Hamas militant training ground nearby, caused the house to collapse, and several other houses nearby were also partly destroyed or burned. The Israeli military issued a laconic statement confirming it carried out two overnight raids on “terror activity sites,” one of which was in northern Gaza, but made no mention of the civilian casualties.
Gazan killed, 20 injured in Israeli strike
