GAZA STRIP: At least 12 people including children were killed overnight in Gaza by Israeli strikes, hospital workers said Wednesday.
The pre-dawn strikes hit three houses in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, according to staff at the Al-Aqsa hospital, which received the bodies.
Among the dead were three children, including two brothers whose bodies arrived in pieces, according to the hospital’s morgue.
Israel has carried out daily strikes on Gaza since ending its ceasefire with Hamas last month. It has cut off the territory’s 2 million Palestinians from all imports, including food and medicine, since the beginning of March in what it says is an attempt to pressure the militant group to release hostages.
The strikes come after more than two dozen people were killed earlier this week in Gaza City and Beit Lahiya.
Israel has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians, according to the territory's Health Ministry.
Israel's military said it arrested Ali Samoudi, a well-known journalist, in an overnight raid in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the north of the territory.
Samoudi previously worked for international outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera.
In 2022, he was injured in the same spray of gunfire that killed prominent Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. US officials say Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli sniper.
Israel’s military said Samoudi was affiliated with and transfered funds for the Islamic Jihad militant group, without providing evidence. They said Samoudi had been transferred to Israel’s security forces.
Samoudi’s arrest is the latest of dozens of Palestinian journalists detained by Israel since the start of the war.