DUBAI, December 15. /TASS/. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has delivered a strike on a residential block in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip resulting in multiple victims, Palestine’s WAFA news agency reported.

According to the news agency, residential buildings near the Kuwait hospital were bombarded. The agency did not specify the number of those killed and wounded. Those rescued from the rubble were taken to the Abu Youssef al-Naggar Hospital.

The news agency said that overnight, the IDF had also delivered strikes on residential districts in Deir al Balah and the Nuseirat and Jabalia refugee camps.

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.