Live Updates: Israeli air strikes kill ten Palestinians in central Gaza homes

Sunday, July 21, 2024

06:17 GMT — Israeli air strikes kill ten Palestinians in central Gaza homes

Ten Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes that targeted two houses in central Gaza.

The Al Awda Hospital said in a statement that it received four bodies and several victims who were injured as a result of an Israeli aircraft targeting a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Gaza's Civil Defense also reported via Telegram that six Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli shelling of a house in the Bureij camp.

The exact number of casualties was not specified. It added that teams are working to extract victims from under the rubble.

05:00 GMT — No legitimacy to Washington’s plans for Gaza: Palestine presidency

The Palestinian presidency has said that leaks about Washington discussing plans for Gaza with unnamed parties “will not have any legitimacy” and emphasised that “the priority is to halt the aggression against Gaza.”

Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said in a statement by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, that Israel persists in "its crimes against the Palestinian people and their land, exceeding international legitimacy due to the blind and unjustified support from the American administration, which provides Israel with financial and military aid."

Rudeina said Israel’s presence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is illegitimate, in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who dismissed an International Court of Justice's advisory opinion on the occupation's illegality and Palestinian self-determination.

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