Israeli Air Strike Kills Family of Three, Including Infant, in Gaza Refugee Camp

An Israeli air strike on a flat in ⁠a refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday left three people dead, including a six-month-old child, health officials said.

Medical workers named the three who died in the Nuseirat refugee camp as Mohammad Abu Mallouh, the infant’s father, Alaa Zaqlan, the mother, and their child, Osama.

Later on ‌Sunday, Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian man in the north of the enclave, near a UN-run medical clinic in Jabalia refugee camp, medical workers said.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on either of the incidents.

At the morgue in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, relatives of three dead family members arrived to bid farewell to their white-shrouded bodies.

“A man sleeping along with his wife and their six-month ⁠infant son in their bed. The rocket fell on his bed, and it took him, with his wife and ‌son, leaving behind six young girls,” said the infant’s grandmother, Umm Hamza Abu Mallouh, with tears in her eyes.

Israel has recently resumed issuing evacuation orders to residents of the ‌enclave – a practice that had largely subsided after an October ceasefire.