Israel has continued its aerial and floor bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing dozens extra Palestinians, as combating rages round Gaza Metropolis’s major al-Shifa hospital, Palestinian officers and the Israeli navy mentioned.
Seventy-one folks had been killed and 112 wounded during the last 24 hours, Gaza’s Ministry of Well being mentioned on Friday.
Two Israeli assaults on the Shujayea suburb in japanese Gaza Metropolis killed 17 folks, whereas an Israeli air raid on a home within the Maghazi refugee camp within the central Gaza Strip killed eight folks, well being authorities mentioned.
No less than 10 policemen tasked with securing help to the displaced in northern Gaza had been amongst these killed in Shujayea, Gaza’s authorities media workplace mentioned.
The Israeli navy mentioned its forces continued operations across the al-Shifa medical advanced, and that over the previous day, it had killed a lot of gunmen
Al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital earlier than the conflict, was one of many few healthcare services even partially operational in northern Gaza earlier than the newest combating. It had additionally been housing displaced civilians.
The Israeli assertion mentioned its forces additionally performed raids in central and southern areas of the besieged strip, together with Khan Younis and al-Karara, the place troops exchanged fireplace with Palestinian gunmen earlier than they killed them.
The armed wing of Hamas mentioned its fighters focused Israeli forces close to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, one of many metropolis’s two hospitals blockaded by Israeli troopers for a number of days.
Within the far south of the Gaza Strip, Israel continued its bombardment in Rafah, the Palestinians’ final refuge the place greater than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals are sheltering. An air raid on a home killed 12 Palestinians late on Thursday.
Greater than 32,623 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza because the begin of the conflict on October 7.