Israel attacked Gaza and the West Bank in recent hours and, according to the Palestinian press, the deadliest attack was against a residence in the city of Beit Lahia, in the north of the enclave.
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More than 30 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to local authorities and media.
Palestinian media reported that the deadliest attack in recent hours was against a residence in the city of Beit Lahia, in the north of the enclave, where the Israeli army has maintained a severe siege for a month.
At least 20 people were killed in the attack in Beit Lahia, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, which also claimed that Palestinians displaced by the war were taking refuge in the building.
The spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, Mahmud Basal, recalled on the Telegram social network that the group’s ambulance services are not operating in the north of the enclave, as Israel has moved most of its workers to the south and has detained seven of them, so the people who were trapped in the area do not receive help.
Added to this situation are two attacks on tents in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Strip, which killed six people, and a bombing in Khan Yunis, in the south, killed three people, including them a child, according to the local press.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed two people in an airstrike and shot dead a third.
The Israeli army said Tuesday that it had killed dozens of suspected militants in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza over the past day, both in hand-to-hand combat and airstrikes.
In the Rafah area, south of the enclave, Israeli troops said they found hundreds of weapons, including rocket launchers, explosives and assault rifles, and killed several militants, according to a military statement.
At least 43,374 people have been killed and more than 100,000 wounded in the devastated Palestinian territory since the start of the Israeli offensive against Hamas more than a year ago, not counting the thousands of bodies estimated to still be buried under the rubble, according to the latest reports the Ministry of Health of Gaza, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group.
Source: Observadora
