**GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL**
Eight Palestinian farmers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, medics said.
A medical source said the bodies of the victims were transferred to the European Hospital after the attack that targeted the Al-Salam neighborhood in southeastern Khan Younis.
Witnesses said that the strike occurred as the farmers were tending to farmland, killing them instantly.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to escalate attacks on Gaza amid efforts to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.
Israel began a surprise aerial campaign on Gaza on March 18, and has since killed more than 1,000 victims and injured over 2,500, shattering a January ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
More than 50,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israel's military onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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