23 ‘torn to pieces’ as Israeli strike targets residential block

ISRAEL CLAIMS THAT IT TARGETED A 'SENIOR HAMAS TERRORIST' IN THE AREA

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Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City killed at least 23 people yesterday, most of them children or women, as the military said it targeted a "senior Hamas" militant.

The strike took place in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency's spokesman, Mahmud Bassal, told AFP.

"The death toll from the Shujaiya massacre has risen to 23 martyrs, including eight children and eight women," he said, adding that more than 60 were wounded. There are still people trapped under the rubble."

'Horrific massacre'

Ayub Salim, a 26-year-old Shujaiya resident, told AFP he witnessed the strike on the four-storey block.