At least 59 people, including children, were killed in an Israeli attack dam across the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources in Tel Aviv Tribune told.
The rescue teams and the doctors in the enclave said that at least 12 people belonging to the same family were one of those who were killed Thursday when their home in northern Jabalia de Gaza had been targeted.
Six members of another family – a couple and their four children – were killed when an aerial strike leveled their house in Gaza City, civil defense said in a statement.
Ahmed Arar, a first worker of Gaza City, said that there were “large quantities of parts and remains of the body”, including those of many children, after the attack.
“There are only hands, legs and heads. They are all cut and torn,” said Arar in Tel Aviv Tribune.
10 other people were killed and several others injured in a strike on a former police station in the Jabalia region in northern Gaza, according to a statement from the Indonesian hospital, where the victims were made.
“Everyone started running and screaming, not knowing what to make the horror and gravity of the bombing,” said Abdel Qader, 23, from Jabalia, said the attack on the station that is near a market.
The Israeli army said that it had struck what it described as a “control and control center” in Hamas in the Jabalia region, without clarifying if it was aimed at the police station. The army has already used similar justifications in attacks that hit hospitals and many shelters housing inappropriate Palestinian families.
At least 26 people were killed in other Israeli attacks across the territory, according to doctors and the Civil Defense Agency.
Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune, signaling Deir El-Balah, said that there was “a continuous increase in the Israeli attack rate against the entire Gaza Strip”.
He said the civil defense teams are still trying to search the rubble at the scene of Jabalia’s last attack.
He quoted a rescue worker saying that many victims had suffered burn injuries.
“Bigger” offensive?
Israel resumed its military assault on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month-old ceasefire which had arrested temporary in the blocked territory.
The army continues to seal the vital borders for the eighth consecutive week, denying the entry of essential humanitarian aid, including medical supplies and fuel, aggravating a humanitarian crisis already deep in the middle of the implacable bombardment.
On Thursday, the head of the army of Israel, visiting the troops in Gaza, threatened a “greater” offensive if the captives seized in the attack led by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, are not released.
“If we do not see progress in the return of hostages in the near future, we will expand our activities to a greater and more important operation,” said Eyal Zamir.
The Israeli army, on the other hand, ordered the Palestinians living in the northern areas of Beit Hanoon and Sheikh Zeid to evacuate before an attack.
The United Nations warned that the expansion evacuation orders of Israel through Gaza lead to the “forced transfer” of people in constantly disposed areas.
Help agencies estimate that the vast majority of 2.4 million Gaza residents have been moved at least once since the start of the war.
Also on Thursday, the Gaza Ministry of Health said that Durra Children’s Hospital of Gaza City had become non -operational, one day after an Israeli strike struck the upper part of the building, damaging the intensive care unit and destroying the solar energy panel system of the establishment.
The Gaza health system was devastated by the 18 -month -old military campaign, putting many hospitals from the territory outside of action, killing doctors and reducing crucial supplies.
The efforts of the main mediators of Qatar and Egypt, supported by the United States, have so far did not produce sustainable ceasefire.
Since Israel resumed its attack, at least 1,978 people have been killed in Gaza, increasing the overall number of death to at least 51,355 since October 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The army said Thursday that the Israeli tanks fire killed a United Nations worker in the central city of Gaza de Deir El-Balah last month, according to the initial conclusions of an investigation.
He initially denied operating in the region where a Bulgarian employee of the United Nations Bureau for Project Services (UNOP) was killed on March 19.
The results come after after the army reported on Sunday on a separate investigation into the murder of 15 Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza.
He finally admitted that operational failures led to their death and said that a commander on the ground would be rejected.