At least 42 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, according to medical sources.
Twenty-four people were killed in Israeli strikes on Nuseirat in central Gaza, one of the enclave’s eight long-standing refugee camps, sources told Tel Aviv Tribune on Friday.
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, doctors said.
Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the enclave, doctors added.
The Israeli military said Thursday that its forces continued to “strike terrorist targets as part of operational activity in the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli tanks entered the northern and western areas of Nuseirat on Thursday.
Some tanks withdrew from the northern areas on Friday but remained active in the western parts of the camp, the Reuters news agency reported.
The Palestinian Civil Defense said its teams were unable to respond to distress calls from residents trapped in their homes.
Dozens of displaced Palestinians returned to areas where the army had retreated on Friday to check the damage to their homes. Doctors and relatives covered the corpses, including those of women, lying on the road with white blankets or shrouds and carried them away on stretchers.
Doctors said an Israeli drone strike killed Ahmed al-Kahlout, head of the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya on the northern edge of Gaza, where Israeli ground forces have been operating since early October.
Kamal Adwan Hospital is one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza that are currently barely functioning due to lack of medical supplies, fuel and food.
Most of its medical staff have been arrested or expelled by the Israeli army, according to health officials.
The Israeli military said its forces operating in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Jabalia since October 5 aimed to prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping and carrying out attacks from these areas.
Residents accused the army of depopulating the towns of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon as well as the Jabalia refugee camp.
Three dead in a stampede in a bakery
Furthermore, two children and a woman were crushed to death on Friday as a crowd of Palestinians rushed to get bread from a bakery in Gaza, in a context of worsening food crisis in this territory ravaged by war, according to Gaza doctors.
The bodies of two girls aged 13 and 17 and a 50-year-old woman were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where a doctor confirmed that they had died of suffocation due to the crowd at the hospital. -Banna Bakery.
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have released around 30 Palestinians they had arrested in recent months during their Gaza offensive.
Those released arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza for medical examinations, doctors said.
Freed Palestinians detained during the war have complained of mistreatment and torture during Israeli detentions after their release. Israel denies torture.
Months of efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza have yielded little progress and negotiations are now suspended.
A ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hamas ally Hezbollah came into effect before dawn Wednesday, bringing an end to hostilities that had escalated sharply in recent months and overshadowed the conflict in Gaza.
The Israeli attack on Gaza has killed at least 44,363 people, mostly women and children, since October 2023, according to Palestinian health officials.
Israel launched its war on Gaza after Hamas carried out an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing at least 1,139 people and capturing around 250 others.
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