DUBAI, December 19. /TASS/. At least 50 people were killed in a strike by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza City, Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera reported.

According to its information, 12 people were injured, 50 more are missing. The strike is said to have hit a building located in the posh Rimal neighborhood, where senior activists of the radical Palestinian Hamas movement reside.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.