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Israeli attacks in the northern and central Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed at least 33 Palestinians, most of them in the northern enclave town of Beit Lahiya, medics said.
Health officials said an Israeli airstrike on a house in Beit Lahiya killed at least 22 people, including women and children. Relatives listed the names of the dead on social media.
Palestinian news agency WAFA said at least 30 people were living in the multi-storey building before it was attacked, adding that several family members remained missing as rescue operations continued into the morning hours.
The Israeli military told Reuters it had launched an attack against Hamas militants near the Kamal Adwan hospital, which lies between Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, towns in the far north of Gaza under Israeli siege for two months.
He said he was still looking into the incident, but described the number of fatalities reported by Palestinians
doctors and the media as “inaccurate” and not aligned with military information.
Earlier on Wednesday, at least seven Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics told Reuters.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service and medics said four other people were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes on two houses in Gaza City, including journalist Eman Al-Shanti and his son. She was the 193rd journalist killed by Israel since the start of the war, the Palestinian Union of Journalists said.
In the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, where Israeli forces have been operating since October, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed and wounded several people. Rescuers said several people were trapped under the rubble of a house.
The Israeli military said in a statement that two rockets were fired from the center of the Gaza Strip toward Israel, but fell in open areas and caused no injuries. It indicated the ability of Gazan militants to continue launching rocket attacks despite 14 months of devastating Israeli air and military offensives.
Israeli forces have been operating in Beit Hanoun, the nearby town of Beit Lahiya, and the Jabalia refugee camp since October 5, fighting Hamas militants attacking from those areas and preventing them from regrouping.
Palestinian officials and residents accuse Israel of depopulating the two towns and the refugee camp at the northern end of the enclave to create a buffer zone, which Israel denies.
Israel launched its air and ground war on Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities on the border 14 months ago, killing 1,200 people and returning more than 250 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli records.
Gaza’s health ministry says Israel’s military campaign since then has killed more than 44,400 Palestinians and wounded many more. The Palestinian civil emergency service estimates that the bodies of about 10,000 people may be trapped under the rubble, which would raise the death toll to more than 50,000.
