DUBAI, December 9. /TASS/. At least six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment of southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

According to the media outlet, an Israeli airstrike on residential buildings in the city of Khan Yunis killed at least six people.

The Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen TV channel, in turn, said that residential areas in the city of Rafah also came under fire. There were reports of casualties.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 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. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and launched a military operation in Gaza, also carrying out strikes on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria in response to rocket attacks. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.