Israeli strikes have killed at the least 73 individuals, together with ladies and youngsters, within the metropolis of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the strip’s Hamas-run authorities say.
Dozens of others are injured and lots of are nonetheless trapped underneath the rubble after the bombing late on Saturday evening, officers added.
Israel mentioned it was checking studies of casualties however mentioned the figures revealed by Hamas authorities had been “exaggerated” and didn’t match info held by its navy.
Preventing additionally continues to be reported in southern Lebanon in addition to the south of Beirut on Sunday morning, the place smoke was seen rising above town.
Israel mentioned its air power had attacked “about 175 terrorist targets” in Gaza and Lebanon over the previous day.
The Hamas-run authorities media workplace mentioned the bombing in Beit Lahia on Saturday evening hit “crowded” residential areas, and that 73 individuals had been killed – a quantity additionally reported by Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence company. The BBC can’t independently confirm the figures.
Based on Palestinian information company Wafa, a whole residential advanced was destroyed within the strikes.
Rescue efforts in Beit Lahia are at the moment hampered as a consequence of communications and web providers being severed within the area, Gaza well being officers added.
The most recent strikes come simply hours after studies of heavy gunfire from Israeli troops on the Indonesian Hospital within the metropolis.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) informed the BBC it had struck a “Hamas terror goal” and was “doing every thing doable to keep away from inflicting hurt to civilians”.
It mentioned the casualties given by the Hamas workplace had been “exaggerated” and mentioned such sources had “confirmed to be sorely unreliable in earlier incidents.”
Israel started a renewed navy offensive in northern Gaza in early October, saying it’s making an attempt to forestall Hamas from regrouping within the space.
Particularly, Israeli forces have surrounded and bombarded the densely-populated Jabalia space, which incorporates an city refugee camp – with at least 33 people reported killed in a strike late on Friday.
Humanitarian teams have warned that just about no assist has entered the realm prior to now few weeks. Israel’s personal statistics present that assist deliveries to Gaza as a complete have collapsed when put next with the identical interval in September.
The UN’s high humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, mentioned on Saturday that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring “unspeakable horrors” and known as for these “atrocities” to cease.
Israel has repeatedly denied it’s stopping humanitarian assist from coming into Gaza however the US has informed it to spice up entry or danger having some American navy help reduce off.
In the meantime, Israel carried out at least a dozen air strikes on Beirut on Saturday, within the heaviest assault the Lebanese capital has witnessed in additional than per week.
Injury and casualties had been nonetheless being assessed, however at the least one multi-storey constructing within the metropolis’s southern suburbs had been utterly destroyed.
The Israeli navy mentioned it had focused Hezbollah’s weapons storage amenities and its intelligence headquarters command centre in Dahieh.
Smoke was seen rising from southern Beirut within the early hours of Sunday after Israel’s navy ordered the speedy evacuation of two neighbourhoods within the space.
The IDF informed civilians they had been “situated close to amenities and pursuits affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF will work towards within the close to future”.
Hezbollah additionally continued to fireside rockets into northern Israel on Saturday, with the Israeli navy saying about 200 projectiles – which often means rockets – had been fired.
One particular person was killed by shrapnel whereas in his automotive, Israel’s medical service Magen David Adom mentioned.
Additionally on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned an attempt had been made on his life following reports of a drone attack on his personal residence.
“The try by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my spouse at the moment was a grave mistake,” he wrote in a submit on X.
Mr Netanyahu and his spouse weren’t at dwelling on the time, and nobody was injured.
Iran says Hezbollah was behind the reported assault, Iranian state information company IRNA reported. Hezbollah – which is funded and outfitted by Iran – has not commented on the studies.
At the very least 42,519 individuals have been killed and tens of hundreds injured in Gaza because the struggle started final October, the Hamas-run authorities say.
The struggle started after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, leaving round 1,200 individuals useless and 251 taken to Gaza as hostages. Israel vowed to destroy Hamas in response.
Earlier this week, the killing of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza raised some hopes in some quarters of an finish to the battle.
However the group’s deputy chief mentioned Hamas would solely be strengthened, and that Israeli hostages wouldn’t be returned till Israel withdrew from Gaza.
Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, additionally mentioned on Saturday that Sinwar’s demise wouldn’t halt the “Axis of Resistance” – the regional community of Iran-backed, closely armed militias that oppose Israel.
“Hamas is alive and can stay alive,” Khamenei’s assertion added.