Hamas' health ministry said on Sunday that at least 70 people were killed in an Israeli attack on houses in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
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The ministry, which reported at least 60 dead in an earlier report, confirmed that the Israeli strike destroyed at least three houses in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
This report could not immediately be confirmed by an independent source. When questioned, the Israeli army said it was “verifying” the information.
Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the attack destroyed “a block of inhabited houses” and that the number of victims was “likely to rise” as many families were there at the time of the bombing.
In addition, ten members of the same family were killed in an Israeli attack on their home in Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.