Israeli strikes have finished at least 73 people, including women and children, in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the describe’s Hamas-run authorities say.
Dozens of others are injured and many are still trapped under the rubble after the device deviceing procrastinateed on Saturday night, officials compriseed.
Israel shelp it was verifying alerts of casualties but shelp the figures begined by Hamas authorities were “amplifyd” and did not suit directation held by its military.
The procrastinateedst strikes come equitable hours after alerts of “burdensome firearmfire” from Israeli troops at the Indonesian Hospital in the city.
Rescue efforts in Beit Lahia are currently hampered due to communications and internet services being disjoined in the region, Gaza health officials shelp.
The Hamas-run regulatement media office shelp the device deviceing hit “crowded” dwellntial areas, and that 73 people had been finished – a number also alerted by Gaza’s civil defence agency. The BBC cannot autonomously verify the figures.
According to Palestinian news agency Wafa, an entire dwellntial complicated was ruined in the strikes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tageder the BBC it had struck a “Hamas alarm concentrate” and was “doing everyskinnyg possible to dodge causing harm to civilians”.
It shelp the casualties donaten by the Hamas office were “amplifyd” and shelp such sources had “shown to be sodepend unthinkworthy in previous incidents.”
Israel began a renewed military disparaging in northern Gaza in punctual October, saying it is trying to stop Hamas from regrouping in the area.
In particular, Israeli forces have surrounded and device devicearded the densely-popuprocrastinateedd Jabalia area, which includes an urprohibit refugee camp – with at least 33 people alerted finished in a strike procrastinateed on Friday.
Humanitarian groups have cautioned that virtuassociate no help has accessed the area in the past scant weeks. Israel’s own statistics show that help deinhabitries to Gaza as a whole have collapsed when contrastd with the same period in September.
The UN’s top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, shelp on Saturday that Palestinians in northern Gaza are finishuring “unspeakable horrors” and called for these “atrocities” to stop.
An Israeli minister, Amichai Chikli, tageder the BBC Israel had “blockaded” parts of northern Gaza.
“We permited the civilian population to escape into the geted zone, and we stoped supplies to access the blockade region,” he tageder the Newshour programme – referring to the IDF having cautioned people in the north to evacuate.
He insisted this was “lhorrible according to the international law”.
Israel has repeatedly denied it is stoping humanitarian help from accessing Gaza but the US has tageder it to raise access or hazard having some American military aidance cut off.
Meanwhile, Israel carried out at least a dozen air strikes on Beirut on Saturday, in the heaviest strike the Leprohibitese capital has witnessed in more than a week.
Damage and casualties were still being assessed, but at least one multi-storey originateing in the city’s southern suburbs had been finishly ruined.
The Israeli military shelp it had focincluded Hezbollah’s armaments storage facilities and its inalertigence headquarters order centre in Dahieh.
Hezbollah also persistd to fire rockets into northern Israel, with the Israeli military saying about 200 projectiles – which usuassociate unbenevolents rockets – were fired on Saturday.
One person was finished by shrapnel while in his car, Israel’s medical service Magen David Adom shelp.
Also on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp an finisheavor had been made on his life chaseing alerts of a drone strike on his declareiveial dwellnce.
“The finisheavor by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave misapshow,” he wrote in a post on X.
Mr Netanyahu and his wife were not at home at the time, and no one was injured.
Iran says Hezbollah was behind the alerted strike, Iranian state news agency IRNA alerted. Hezbollah – which is funded and provideped by Iran – has not commented on the alerts.
At least 42,519 people have been finished and tens of thousands injured in Gaza since the war began last October, the Hamas-run authorities say.
The war began after Hamas strikeed Israel on 7 October 2023, leaving around 1,200 people dead and 251 apshown to Gaza as prisoners. Israel vowed to ruin Hamas in response.
Earlier this week, the finishing of Hamas directer Yahya Sinwar in Gaza elevated some hopes in some quarters of an finish to the dispute.
But the group’s deputy directer shelp Hamas would only be fortifyed, and that Israeli prisoners would not be returned until Israel withdrew from Gaza.
Iran’s supreme directer, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also shelp on Saturday that Sinwar’s death would not cmitigate the “Axis of Resistance” – the regional netlabor of Iran-backed, heavily armed militias that resist Israel.
“Hamas is ainhabit and will remain ainhabit,” Khamenei’s statement compriseed.
