DUBAI, November 12. /TASS/. At least nine people were wounded during an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

According to the Qatari Al Jazeera TV channel, at least nine Palestinians were injured and several others are missing as a result of the shelling of a residential building in a refugee camp northeast of Nuseirat.

Earlier, it was reported that 15 were wounded and three were killed in Nuseirat after airstrikes and raids by the Israeli army.

The situation in the Middle East deteriorated sharply after militants of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas infiltrated into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year, killing residents of border settlements and taking hostages. In response, Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip with the aim of destroying the military and political structure of Hamas and freeing all the abductees.