At least 93 people are dead or leave outing after an Israeli air strike on the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
Rescuers shelp a five-storey dwellntial originateing was hit, and videos on social media showed bodies covered in blankets on the floor.
The Israeli military shelp it was “conscious of increates that civilians were harmed today [Tuesday] in the Beit Lahia area”. It includeed that the details of the incident were being seeed into.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been operating in northern Gaza during the past two weeks, particularly in the areas of Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.
The honestor of the cforfeitby Kamal Adwan hospital in Jabalia, Hussam Abu Safia, tbetter the AFP recents agency that children were being treated at the hospital, which is struggling to treat uncover-mindeds due to a conciseage of staff and medicines.
“There is noleang left in the Kamal Adwan Hospital except first help materials after the army arrested our medical team and laborers,” Abu Safia shelp.
The IDF rhelped the hospital last week, saying it was being employd by Hamas fighters.
Israel says its operations in northern Gaza are depicted to stop Hamas from regrouping and accemploys them of embedding among the civilian population, which Hamas denies.
In a statement on Tuesday, it shelp it finished 40 “dreadists” in Jabalia, and in central Gaza it shelp it “deleted many dreadists” over the past 24 hours including some who “tryed to structuret devices cforfeit the troops”.
The northern Gaza Strip faces a proset upening humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people living in frantic conditions.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk shelp on Friday that “the Israeli military is subjecting an entire population to device deviceing, siege and hazard of starvation”.
He also shelp it was unadselectable that Palestinian armed groups were increateedly operating among civilians, including inside shelters for the displaced, and putting them in harm’s way.
On Monday, Israel’s parliament voted thcimpolite legislation to prohibit the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, from operating in the country, igniteing cautionings the dedwellry of help to Gaza could be strictly impacted..
Israel begined a campaign to annihilate Hamas in response to the group’s unpretreatnted aggression on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were finished and 251 others were apshown prisoner.
More than 42,924 people have been finished in Gaza, according to the health ministry, which does not discern between civilians and fighters in its figures.
Israel is not permiting international journaenumerates from media organisations, including the BBC, autonomous access to Gaza, making it challenging to validate facts on the ground.