Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate air strikes on Gaza City on Tuesday morning, health officials said, as tanks deepened their incursion into the southern city of Rafah.
Two of the attacks hit two schools in Gaza City, killing at least 14 people, doctors said. Another attack on a house in Shati camp, one of eight historic refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, killed another 10 people.
The house in Shati belonged to the family of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, killing one of his sisters and other relatives, family members and doctors said.
Haniyeh, who leads Hamas diplomacy and is the public face of the militant Islamist group that rules Gaza, has lost many of his family members in Israeli airstrikes since October 7, including three of his children.
Israel’s military said its forces overnight targeted militants in Gaza City who were involved in planning attacks on Israel. The militants included some involved in holding hostages and some who participated in the Hamas attack on October 7.
The Israeli Air Force attacked two structures “used by Hamas terrorists in Shati and Daraj Tuffah in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorists operated inside school compounds that were used by Hamas as a shield for its terrorist activities,” the military statement said.
Hamas denies using civilian facilities, such as schools and hospitals, for military purposes.
After more than eight months of fighting, international mediation supported by the United States has so far failed to reach a ceasefire agreement. Hamas says any agreement must end the war, while Israel says it will agree only to temporary pauses in fighting until Hamas is eradicated.
Medicine shortage
Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza was triggered when Hamas-led militants invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli records.
The Israeli offensive in retaliation for the episode killed almost 37,600 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, and left the small, densely populated Gaza Strip in ruins.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that hospitals and medical centers in the enclave were facing a serious shortage of medicines and medical supplies due to the continued Israeli offensive, the control and closure of all crossings through Israel and attacks on the sector. health care in Gaza.
Medicines needed for emergencies, anesthesia, intensive care and operations are particularly scarce, the ministry said in a statement, while cancer patients have been unable to travel to hospitals.
Since the beginning of May, fighting has focused on Rafah, in the far south of Gaza, near the border with Egypt, where half of the enclave’s 2.3 million people have taken shelter after fleeing other areas.
Residents said fierce fighting took place overnight in the western areas of Rafah, where tanks have expanded their incursion in recent days, blowing up several houses in the area.
Source: CNN Brasil
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