KHAN YUNIS: A Zionist strike killed 10 members of a Gaza family in the territory’s southern district of Khan Yunis Tuesday, leaving only one survivor — a three-month-old girl, a medic told AFP. “Ten members of the Abu Haya family were killed in a Zionist strike on Abassan in east Khan Yunis,” the medic from Nasser Hospital told AFP on condition of anonymity. “There is only one survivor from the family, a baby girl named Rim.

She is just three months old,” he said, identifying the 10 other members of the family — two parents and their eight children.

The girl, wrapped in a black cloth, stirred strong emotion in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, a place now known for grieving families searching for dead or wounded loved ones. “This little girl was pulled out of the rubble.

Her whole family is dead. Who will take care of her now?” asked Ibrahim Barbakh, a resident of Khan Yunis, as he held the baby. Rescue workers, witnesses and medical sources reported further Zionist air strikes and shelling in several parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, some of them deadly.

In the occupied West Bank, Zionist forces shot a man dead on Tuesday during a raid to demolish the apartments of two detained Palestinian suspects.

The Zionist military said in a statement to AFP that the man was shot after Zionist forces opened fire in response to Palestinians throwing rocks at them during the demolition.

The Zionist troops had stormed Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority, to demolish the apartments of two Palestinians who are in custody on suspicion of carrying out an attack in the city earlier this year.

“Suddenly, they arrived and surrounded the neighborhood and then entered the house,” Ahmed Al-Barghouthi, brother of one of the detainees, told AFP. “They told us that the house was going to be destroyed with explosives and ordered us to leave even though I’m ill and we have two elderly people in our family.” The Zionist military identified the two detained suspects whose apartments were targeted for demolition as Khaled al-Kharouf and Aysar Barghouthi.

It said the two men had killed Lara Tannous and Amer Mansour in a “terror attack adjacent to the town of Silwad” on January 7.

The Zionist entity routinely demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks, arguing that such measures act as a deterrent, while critics say they amount to collective punishment. — AFP