Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza as Huckabee visits

ISRAELI airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 17 people yesterday, including children, hospital workers said, as the new US ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem.

- BY WAFAA SHURAFA

Among the dead were 10 people in Jabaliya, including eight from the same house, according to the Indonesian Hospital, which received the bodies.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, seven people were killed, one of them a pregnant woman, according to Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were brought.