CAIRO — Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, medics said, and the Israeli military said its air and ground forces in the north of the enclave killed dozens of militants and captured others.
Palestinians check the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec 15, 2024
Hamas media said the head of the civil emergency service in Nuseirat, Nedal Abu Hjayyer, was also killed. At least 11 people were killed in three Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City houses, nine were killed in the towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia camp when clusters of houses were bombed or set ablaze, and two were killed in Rafah, medics and residents said.
In southern Gaza's Khan Younis, medics said that at least 20 people, including women and children, were killed when an airstrike hit a shelter housing displaced families. Israel says Gaza's militants regularly embed among civilians, using them as human shields. Hamas denies this.Separately, Israel said aircraft struck a command and control centre in a compound in the Abu Shabak clinic in northern Gaza used by Hamas to store weapons and plan attacks. The Gaza health ministry said the medical centre was destroyed.
Israel then launched an air and land offencive that has killed almost 45,000 people, mostly civilians, according to authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The campaign has displaced nearly the entire population and left much of the enclave in ruins.
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