More than 10 people were killed in a strike on a market in central Gaza.

An Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat market in the Gaza Strip killed at least 12 people. reports Al Mayadeen.

Previously, the publication reported about a strong fire after an airstrike that hit two public restaurants located on the territory of the market.

It is noted that these are preliminary data, the scale of destruction suggests that the number of victims may be greater. According to local media reports, the wounded are already being transported to nearby hospitals, which are also sometimes hit by airstrikes.

Nuseirat is A Palestinian refugee camp whose population has doubled in recent weeks as some 100,000 people have fled the northern Gaza Strip to escape Israeli bombing.

On October 7, the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel. Against the backdrop of an attack by militants, the army of the Jewish state launched Operation Iron Swords, the country went into a state of war and began launching massive airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. According to the latest data, over 5,500 people have died as a result of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, most of them Palestinians. Israel is implementing a “complete and comprehensive” blockade of the Gaza Strip, and “nothing comes from Israeli territory” to the Palestinian enclave, including water, electricity and medicine, an Israeli army spokesman said. The situation has already brought the Gaza Strip to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, as the UN warned about.