<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Nasser Abu Quta lost 19 members of his family in an instant when an Israeli airstrike blew up his home in a crowded refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The airstrike in Rafah, a southern town on the border with Egypt, came as Israeli forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip following a big, multi-front attack by Hamas militants Saturday that had killed over 700 people in Israel by Sunday night.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So far, the waves of airstrikes had killed over 400 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, health officials reported Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Abu Quta doesn’t understand why Israel struck his house. There were no militants in his building, he insisted, and his family was not warned.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the strike on Abu Quta’s home. AP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>