CAIRO, October 23. /TASS/. Some 13 people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestine’s WAFA news agency reported.

According to it, two residential buildings and an Albanian mosque were attacked in the town of Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. 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 has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.