Deadly Night in Khan Younis: Over 57 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes on Crowded Homes and Tents

Deadly Night in Khan Younis: Over 57 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes on Crowded Homes and Tents

Deadly Night in Khan Younis: Over 57 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Strikes on Crowded Homes and Tents
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 57 Palestinians, most of them children, were killed overnight and into Thursday in a barrage of Israeli strikes on residential areas in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. According to local sources and journalists, 13 crowded homes and a number of tents and civilian sites were targeted across the southern city. Among the targeted families: al-Lahham, al-Zaytani, al-Bayouk, and Kawari'. Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex reported an influx of casualties, many of them children. “A harrowing night, hospitals in Khan Younis were overwhelmed with injured children as the relentless attacks continued. Several journalist colleagues put down their cameras to assist medical teams in receiving and comforting the young victims,” a Gaza journalist wrote. Among those killed was Palestinian journalist Hassan Samour. He and several members of his family were killed when an Israeli strike targeted their home in Bani Suheila, a town east of Khan Younis.