Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Oct. 8

At least 24 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said. Israeli warplanes hit a four-story residential building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 16 people, according to Gaza's Civil Defense Authority. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel) - - - - DAMASCUS -- Seven people were killed and 11 others injured in an Israeli attack Tuesday night in the residential neighborhood of Mazzeh, west of the Syrian capital Damascus, according to a statement by the Syrian Defense Ministry. Among the casualties were children and women who were admitted to hospitals, Syria's state news agency SANA reported. (Syria-Israel-Casualties) - - - - KHARTOUM -- At least 20 people were killed and three others injured in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in North Kordofan State in western Sudan, the non-governmental Sudanese Doctors Network announced on Tuesday. "20 people were killed and 3 others injured in an attack by the RSF on the Al-Dammokia village, some 30 km east of El-Obeid, the capital city of North Kordofan State," the network said in a statement, noting that elderly people and children were among the victims. (Sudan-RSF-Attacks) - - - - JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel has killed "thousands" of Hezbollah members, including Hashem Safieddine, the expected successor to the group's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah. The statement was made in a video message to the people of Lebanon, released by Netanyahu's office, in which he urged them to "liberate" Lebanon from Hezbollah, accusing the group of causing the country's ongoing financial crisis. (Israel-Lebanon-Killing) Enditem Source: The Namibia News Agency