DUBAI, December 8. /TASS/. The Israeli Air Force has struck a refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, the Al Jazeera TV channel reported.

According to the channel, Israeli warplanes raided the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. The channel also reported the destruction of residential buildings in the city of Deir al-Balah by military aircraft.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian movement Hamas staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from Gaza, killing residents of Israeli border settlements and taking over 200 hostages, including women, children and the elderly. 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 declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, and has been delivering air strikes on Gaza as well as some parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also underway in the West Bank.