Dozens killed as Israel bombs Jabalia, Rafah, Khan Younis IDF strikes Syria

At least 20 people have been killed and 20 more injured after Israeli forces bombed a home east of the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports in its daily roundup of attacks in the besieged enclave.

Wafa also reports that 14 Palestinians were killed when the Israeli military bombed the Al-Hanawi School, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Six Palestinians were also killed when the Israeli military bombed their vehicle in the Khirbet Al-Adas neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza.

Wafa reports that there have been several other deadly incidents in Gaza over the past 24 hours:

• Three people were killed by an Israeli air attack in Khan Younis.
• Two were killed by Israeli fire at the UNRWA-affiliated Hayat School in Khan Younis.
• An Israeli sniper killed a man at the entrance to the Beit Al-Maqdis school in Khan Younis.
• Three people were killed, including a local journalist, in an Israeli air attack on a home west of Rafah.
• Several fishermen were injured after an Israeli boat fired at them off the coast of Rafah.
• Several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing raid north of the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah.
• The Israeli military bombed a home in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, wounding eight people.

Meanwhile, Israeli missiles struck a number of sites in Syria's Homs province, the Syrian army said on February 7, with local sources saying the attacks targeted Syrian army outposts and an airbase in the area.

Syrian air defence shot down a number of missiles, state media said, without giving details on the targets hit.

A military source later told state media that there were several casualties and people injured as well as damage to property.

State television showed ambulances rushing to the scene of a strike, where wreckage and debris lay from a building that was hit. Reuters could not verify the location of the site.

Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers, Israel has escalated its strikes on Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria and also struck Syrian army air defences and some Syrian forces.

The attacks targeted the Shuyrat airbase and several locations on the outskirts of Homs, according to a Syrian military intelligence source familiar with the matter.

Israel has for years carried out attacks on what it has described as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran's influence has grown since it began supporting President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war that started in 2011.

Fighters allied with Iran, including Hezbollah, now hold sway in vast areas in eastern, southern and northwestern Syria and in several suburbs around the capital.