At least 38 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, most of them in an attack on a house in Beit Lahia on the northern edge of the enclave, doctors said.
The attack in Beit Lahia killed at least 22 people, including women and children, health officials said. Relatives listed the names of the dead on social networks.
More than 30 people lived in the high-rise building before it was hit, and several family members were still missing as rescue operations continued throughout the morning, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Israeli military told Reuters it carried out an attack on Hamas fighters near the Kamal Adwan hospital, which is located between Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, towns on the northern edge of Gaza under Israeli siege for two months.
It says it is continuing to investigate the incident, but described the death toll reported by Palestinian doctors and the media as “inaccurate” and contradicting the military’s information.
In nearby Beit Hanoun, also part of the besieged area, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed and wounded several people, without specifying the exact number. Rescuers said several people were trapped under the rubble.
Earlier, at least seven Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, medics told Reuters.
Palestinian civilian emergency services and medics said nine more people were killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on two houses and a crowd of people in Gaza City, including journalist Eman Al-Shanti, her husband and their three children.
Al-Shanti is the 193rd journalist killed by Israel since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Palestinian Union of Journalists said.
(Vijesti.ba / FENA)
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