At the least 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in numerous components of Gaza on Sunday, together with two faculties, based on well being officers within the besieged enclave.
An airstrike within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis hit a faculty, killing not less than 16 individuals together with a number of kids, based on Nasser Hospital the place our bodies have been taken. There was no instant assertion from the Israeli navy.
Footage verified by Sky Information reveals a number of ambulances on the scene of the assault in addition to the highest of a constructing ablaze.
Within the north, an airstrike hit the Khalil Aweida faculty within the city of Beit Hanoun and killed not less than 15 individuals, based on close by Kamal Adwan Hospital the place casualties have been taken.
The lifeless included two mother and father and their daughter, and a father and his son, the hospital was quoted saying by the Related Press.
The strike in Khan Younis is reported to have killed not less than 16 individuals
Individuals flee the scene in Khan Younis
In Gaza Metropolis, not less than 17 individuals together with six ladies and 5 kids have been killed in three airstrikes that hit homes sheltering displaced individuals, based on Al Ahli Baptist Hospital.
“We woke as much as the strike. I awoke with the rubble on high of me,” mentioned Yahia al Yazji as he grieved the lack of his spouse, who he mentioned was three months pregnant, and daughter within the assault.
“I discovered my spouse along with her head and cranium seen, and my daughter’s intestines have been gone.”
The Israeli navy mentioned in an announcement that it struck a “terrorist cell” in Gaza Metropolis and a “terrorist assembly level” from the air and on the bottom within the Beit Hanoun space, killing dozens of militants and capturing others.
An airstrike in central Gaza killed Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed al Louh. The identical strike, which hit a civil emergency centre within the Nuseirat market space, additionally killed 5 others, medics and journalists mentioned.
The Israeli navy claimed Mr al Louh was a member of the militant group Islamic Jihad, with out offering proof.
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Israel’s 14-month struggle on Hamas in Gaza has killed almost 45,000 individuals, Hamas-run native authorities have mentioned.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the navy marketing campaign on the besieged Palestinian enclave following the 7 October assault by Hamas final yr which noticed 1,200 individuals massacred in southern Israel and greater than 250 taken hostage.
