DUBAI, April 24. /TASS/. Four civilians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV channel reported.

According to the broadcaster, the camp’s school area was hit.

In addition, the Israeli military fired artillery shells at the Al Zaytun neighborhood in Gaza City. Another strike targeted a facility in the city center.

Meanwhile, three people were killed and another four suffered injuries in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera said, citing civil defense workers.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7, 2023, after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, killing residents of border communities and taking people hostage. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and launched a ground operation in the enclave, also carrying out strikes on targets in the Strip and certain areas of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.