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Toll in Gaza hits 333 on day 12 of war
View(s):GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, July 19 (AFP) -Israeli air strikes and shelling killed more than 25 people across Gaza today, among them children, raising the toll in 12 days of violence to 333, medics said.
A man looks at a destroyed house, which police said was targeted in an Israeli air strike, through a hole, in Gaza City (REUTERS)
The latest deaths included five members of the Zuweidi family, including two girls aged two and six, in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanun, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Four men were also killed in two separate air strikes in Beit Lahiya in the north, he added, along with one person killed in the Qarara district of southern Khan Yunis.
Another three men were killed in an air strike in central Gaza, he added.
The new deaths raised the toll in Gaza on the 12th day of violence between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas to 333.
Earlier, Qudra reported five bodies had been pulled from a home hit by an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis.
Two Israeli civilians and one Israeli soldier have been killed since the campaign started on July 8.
The soldier was killed by friendly fire inside Gaza on Friday, the army told Israeli media.
Some 2,385 Palestinians have been wounded, Qudra said.