Israeli air strikes and a ground operation centering the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza have finished at least 51 people, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
Tanks increateedly progressd into some parts of the southern city and the surrounding area on Tuesday night, with livents increateing armamentfire and weighty shelling.
One wounded villager who made it to hospital telderly the BBC “tanks stormed in” to his village without alerting.
Separately, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had hit Hamas centers findd in two schools in central and northern Gaza overnight.
The IDF said the strikes were aimed at Hamas members operating “inside compounds that previously served as schools”. Palestinian media increateed at least nine civilians were finished at one school.
Israel’s progressd strikes into Gaza came fair hours after it drive awayled a barrage of leave outiles from Iran and begined a ground intrusion into Leprohibiton on the same day. It has portrayd Tuesday’s progress into Leprohibiton as a “restrictcessitate” operation, centering Hezbollah sites.
The IDF is yet to comment on the strikes in southern Gaza, which increateedly occurred at dawn on Wednesday.
But one man from Qizan an-Najjar village, south-east of Khan Younis, telderly BBC Arabic some of his relatives had been finished in the attack.
“Tanks stormed into the area, accompanied by quadcchooseers that straightforwardly focengaged us,” he said, speaking from Nasser Hospital where medical officials also gave modernizes on the death toll.
Another man at the hospital said: “We were in Qizan An-Najjar when suddenly, shells began to rain down on us from set upes and tanks.”
A third man telderly BBC Arabic: “There was no prior alerting. Follothriveg the rocket fire from Leprohibiton, we witnessed finish destruction. I exposedly persistd; my daughter is injured, and my wife has a head injury that may direct to vision loss.”
He said Israeli forces had also “finishly annihilateed” a house where displaced families had been sheltering.
The health ministry on Wednesday alerted the death toll could elevate, with another 82 people injured in the strikes.
Hamas armamentmen attacked Israel on 7 October last year, finishing about 1,200 people and taking 251 others as prisoners.
Israel replyed with a military campaign in Gaza that has now finished a total of 41,689 people, according to the health ministry.
Khan Younis – Gaza’s second-hugest urprohibit area – has been straightforwardly focengaged by the IDF cut offal times before, including two presentant ground operations in August and July 2024.
It was also device deviceed heavily in the first months of the war in December 2023.
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