Gaza: at least 39 people killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, according to local authorities

At least 39 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, as rescuers struggled to find survivors under the rubble, according to Palestinian and hospital officials.

Fadel Naem, director of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that more than three dozen bodies had arrived at the hospital. The Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency group active in Gaza, said its rescuers were searching for survivors at the site of a strike in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, and that they had removed several dozen bodies from a building hit by an Israeli strike in a neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

Israel said on Saturday that its warplanes had struck two Hamas military sites in Gaza City, but gave no further details.

Adding that it continued to operate in the central and southern Gaza Strip and continued its invasion of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had taken refuge to escape fighting elsewhere. Most of them have now fled the city, but the United Nations says no part of Gaza is safe and humanitarian conditions are dire, with families sheltering in tents and cramped apartments without food. , water or adequate medical supplies.

Tensions in the occupied West Bank

Another Israeli strike on Saturday in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed a member of the military wing of the Jamaa Islamiya group, a Sunni Muslim faction closely allied with Hamas.

Also on Saturday, the Israeli military said an Israeli was shot and killed in the town of Qalqilya in the northern occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces shot dead two militants on Friday. This is the latest outbreak of violence in the territory since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.

On Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 12-year-old Palestinian boy died from his injuries after being shot and wounded by Israeli forces in Ramallah last week. The Israeli military said its forces raided the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah to arrest a suspect on Friday and then opened fire on a group of Palestinians who threw weapons at them. rocks.

Israel said on Saturday it was investigating a separate incident regarding the behavior of its soldiers after a video surfaced online showing an injured Palestinian being carried on the hood of an Israeli armored vehicle in the northern occupied West Bank. The army said the man in the video was a wanted suspect and was wounded in an exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces near the town of Jenin. The man was transported to a nearby Red Crescent ambulance. The military said the behavior depicted in the video was not “in line with values” of the Army.