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Dozens killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp

A post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families has been hit in Nuseirat, as well as nearby houses, according to a medic.

Dozens killed in Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip — Palestinians pray at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah over the bodies of victims of an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

More than 30 Palestinians have been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Medics told the Reuters news agency that a post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families was hit, as well as nearby houses.

Photographs from the scene show young children coated with dust and blood in the rubble of a collapsed building.

Nuseirat is one of the Gaza Strip’s eight historical refugee camps established in 1948 after the forced expulsion of Palestinians from nearby areas, often called the Nakba or “catastrophe”.