DUBAI, January 16. /TASS/. At least 25 people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip last night, Palestine’s WAFA news agency reported.

According to the media outlet’s sources, an Israeli airstrike on a residential building north of Rafah killed 11. Eight people were killed and dozens suffered wounds in an attack on a facility near a civil defense headquarters in Khan Yunis. Another airstrike hit the Bureij refugee camp and the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, killing six.

The news agency points out that over 24,000 people have been killed in Gaza since violence escalated on October 7, 2023, and more than 60,000 have been wounded. About 8,000 people are considered missing.

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 over 200 people, including women, children and the elderly, hostage. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and started carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets in the Strip, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.