Gaza interior ministry: Israeli air strike kills at least 19 near hospital

Palestinians gesture as they check the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike the previous night in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, on November 1, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Picture: Bashar TALEB / AFP

At least 19 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house near a hospital in north Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, the enclave's interior ministry said, as thousands of civilians fled southward to avoid fierce Israeli-Hamas ground fighting.

There was no immediate Israeli comment or details from the scene of the reported attack, which if confirmed would be the third on Gaza's largest refugee camp in a week as the war between the Gaza Strip's Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel entered its second month.