Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack, in which militants swept into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping about 250. (Photo: Reuters)
Gaza’s Health Ministry said 71 people were killed in an Israeli attack in the south of the war-torn enclave on Saturday.
The ministry said 289 others were wounded in the attack that hit the Khan Younis area. It said many of the wounded and dead were taken to the nearby Nasser Hospital.
Associated Press journalists counted more than 40 bodies at the hospital and witnesses described an attack that included multiple strikes.
It remains unclear whether the attack took place in Muwasi, an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone that stretches from northern Rafah to Khan Younis. The coastal strip is where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled in search of safety, mostly sheltering in makeshift tents.
Israel launched its campaign in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack, in which militants swept into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping about 250.
Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38,300 people in Gaza and wounded more than 88,000, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. The ministry makes no distinction between fighters and civilians in its count. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been forced from their homes, with most now crowded into squalid tent camps, where they face widespread hunger.
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First print: Jul 13, 2024 | 4:33 PM IST