Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Jan 13, 2024. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

GAZA / BAGHDAD - At least 20 Palestinians were killed after Israel attacked a house in Gaza City on Saturday morning, the state-run Palestine TV reported.

The report, citing a statement from Palestinian Civil Defense, said that "the bodies of 20 martyrs were recovered after the Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City."

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the strip has risen to 23,843, updated the Gaza-based Health Ministry on Saturday

The Al-Daraj neighborhood, a densely populated area in the center of the city, has witnessed clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in recent days, local sources told Xinhua.

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the strip has risen to 23,843, updated the Gaza-based Health Ministry on Saturday.

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The ministry said in a press statement that the Israeli army killed 135 Palestinians and wounded 312 others during the past 24 hours.

The statement added that since its outbreak on Oct 7, 2023, the Israel-Hamas conflict has led to 60,317 injuries among Palestinians in the enclave, noting that a large number of victims are believed to be under the rubble of destroyed buildings, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.

Meanwhile, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid condemned Saturday the expansion of the conflict in the Gaza Strip to a broader scope after the US-led airstrikes on the Houthi military sites in Yemen, warning that such an expansion would have a devastating impact on everyone.

"We strongly condemn any attempts to expand the scope of this conflict, as it will burn everyone," Rashid said in a televised speech during the ceremony commemorating the late Shiite cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, who was assassinated in a bomb attack in the city of Najaf in August 2003.

A man sits amid the rubble following Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. (PHOTO / AFP)

Rashid reiterated Iraq's condemnation of Israeli attacks on Gaza that caused the suffering of the Palestinian people, especially as most of the victims are women, children, and the elderly.

He urged the international community to put an end to this conflict by taking a more decisive position to achieve peace and secure the interests of the Palestinian people by establishing their independent state.

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On Friday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemned the airstrikes by the United States and Britain that targeted Houthi military sites in Yemen. The strikes came in response to the Houthis' recent attacks in the Red Sea on what they called "Israeli-linked ships."

The ministry decried the attacks as "aggression against Yemen and its sovereignty."