Israeli air strike kills 50 at Gaza refugee camp

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Israel stated its forces fought Hamas gunmen contained in the group’s huge tunnel community beneath Gaza as a hospital director stated greater than 50 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp within the besieged enclave.

Because the battle contained in the tiny Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory intensified, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed worldwide requires a halt to the preventing.

However UN and different support officers warned {that a} public well being disaster was engulfing civilians in Gaza, with hospitals struggling to deal with mounting casualties and meals, medication, ingesting water and gas operating brief.

The director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital instructed Al Jazeera that greater than 50 Palestinians have been killed and 150 wounded in Israeli air strikes on a densely populated space of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

There was no instant remark from the Israeli navy.

The tunnels underneath the cramped enclave are a main goal for Israel because it expands a four-day-old floor offensive – after three weeks of aerial bombardment – into Gaza from the north to hit Hamas in retaliation for the Islamist group’s lethal shock assault into southern Israel on Oct. 7.

A few of the 240 hostages that Israel says have been seized by Hamas that day are believed to be held within the tunnel advanced, including an extra complication for the Israelis on prime of the difficulties of preventing in an city setting.

“During the last day, mixed IDF (Israel Defence Forces) struck roughly 300 targets, together with anti-tank missile and rocket launch posts under shafts, in addition to navy compounds inside underground tunnels belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation,” an Israeli navy assertion stated.

Fighters responded with anti-tank missiles and machine gun fireplace, it stated. Plenty of fighters have been killed, it stated, with out specifying a quantity.

Hamas stated in a press release its fighters have been participating in fierce battles with Israeli floor forces, who have been taking losses. “The occupation is pushing its troopers into proud Gaza, which is able to all the time be the cemetery of invaders,” Hamas stated.

An explosion is pictured within the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel. PHOTO: REUTERS

Israeli forces additionally bombed the slim coastal enclave in a single day in air, sea and floor assaults, hitting northwestern areas, witnesses stated on Tuesday.

On Monday, Israeli forces focused Gaza’s primary north-south highway and attacked Gaza Metropolis, its northern hub, from two instructions.

Gaza well being authorities say that 8,525 individuals, together with 3,542 youngsters, have been killed in Israeli assaults since Oct. 7. UN officers say greater than 1.four million of Gaza’s civilian inhabitants of about 2.Three million have been made homeless.

About 1,400 individuals, primarily civilians, have been killed within the cross-border Hamas assault on Oct. 7, Israel says.

Reuters has been unable to independently confirm casualty counts.

Floor preventing spreads to south Gaza

The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, stated fighters additionally clashed early on Tuesday with Israeli forces invading Gaza’s south, hitting 4 Israeli autos with missiles.

Fighters additionally fired at two Israeli tanks in addition to bulldozers in northwest Gaza, al-Qassam stated. In Beit Hanoun, within the northeast, they “liquidated” an Israeli unit which was ambushed because it entered a constructing.

Reuters was unable to substantiate the main points of battle reviews. Israel’s navy had no instant touch upon the Hamas accounts.

Air raid sirens sounded within the space of Israel’s far southern resort metropolis of Eilat on the Purple Sea on Tuesday and the Israeli navy stated it downed an approaching “aerial goal”.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis stated that they had launched a “giant quantity” of ballistic missiles and drones in direction of Israel, their third operation focusing on Israel, with extra to return.

The mounting dying toll in Gaza has drawn calls from the US, Israel’s primary ally, different nations and the UN for a pause in preventing to permit in additional humanitarian support.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, talking in Washington, careworn the significance of each safety help for Israel and humanitarian support for Palestinians in Gaza.

“With out swift and sustained humanitarian aid, the battle is more likely to unfold, struggling will develop, and Hamas and its sponsors will profit by fashioning themselves because the saviours of the very desperation they created,” he stated.

Israel has sealed off Gaza and refuses to permit in gas provides lest, it says, they be utilized by Hamas to wage battle.

Netanyahu stated on Monday Israel wouldn’t comply with a ceasefire and would pursue its plans to annihilate Hamas.

A World Well being Group official in Geneva stated on Tuesday {that a} “public well being disaster” was imminent in Gaza.

Kids beneath the rubble

A Palestinian lady holds two youngsters as she stands on a avenue in Gaza Metropolis following in Israeli airstrike. PHOTO: AFP

Air strikes on Monday evening outdoors the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza brought about an influence lower and docs stated they feared for the lives of 250 injured Palestinians being handled there as gas runs low.

“Operating out of gas would imply no energy and no energy would imply the inevitable dying of many sufferers,” Dr. Moaeen Al-Masri stated.

James Elder, a spokesperson for the UN youngsters’s company in Geneva, warned of the danger of toddler deaths resulting from dehydration. Kids in Gaza have been getting sick from ingesting salty water, he stated.

About 940 youngsters are reported lacking in Gaza, he stated, with some considered caught beneath the rubble of buildings flattened by Israeli air strikes.

Considerably fewer humanitarian support vehicles than wanted have reached the besieged enclave, UN officers stated. Support vehicles have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt over the previous week by way of Rafah, the primary crossing that doesn’t border Israel.