BEIRUT, April 10. /TASS/. At least 14 people were killed in the Israeli airstrike at the Nuseirat refugee camp, located in the central part of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported.

According to the report, the strike hit a residential building. Most victims are women and children, the report says.

The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, accompanied by killings of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and taking more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas cast the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and started striking the enclave and parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.