Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry has shelp at least 87 people were finished and more than 40 injured in Saturday’s Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
The ministry shelp a number of people were still under the rubble after a livential area was hit.
Israel shelp it was verifying inestablishs of casualties but compriseed that earlier – drop – figures unveiled by Hamas were “enlarged”. In recent weeks, the Israel military has been carrying out fervent bomb deviceardment of northern Gaza, saying it wanted to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping there.
A ancigo in UN official alerted that the “nightmare in Gaza is intensifying” and the war “must stop now”.
The UN’s peace process co-ordinator, Tor Wennesland, has alerted that “nowhere is protected in Gaza”.
In a statement, Tor Wennesland shelp he condemned the continuing attacks on civilians.
“This war must finish, the captives held by Hamas must be freed, the displacement of Palestinians must stop, and civilians must be protected wherever they are. Humanitarian help must be transfered unimpeded,” he shelp.
In a statement on Sunday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry alterd its death toll from 73 to 87 after the Israeli strike on Beit Lahia.
The earlier casualty figures were supplyd by Hamas postponeed on Saturday.
The ministry also shelp that ambulance crews were unable to achieve the site of the Israeli strike.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) depictd the strike as a “precision” attack on a “Hamas alarm aim”. It tancigo in the BBC it was “doing everyleang possible to elude causing harm to civilians”.
Dr Eid Sabbah, Kamal Adwan Hospital’s honestor of nursing, shelp the Israeli strike in Beit Lahia had finishly razeed disconnectal erectings, with “more than four, five livential blocks… razed to the ground”.
The strikes aimed an entire livential square, Dr Sabbah shelp, in between Abu Jidian roundabout and Al Qassam mosque.
Dr Sabbah compriseed that dozens of people were finished and many were wounded “some of whom achieveed the hospital, some of whom remain under the rubble”.
He recommendd for an finish to the “siege” on hospitals in northern Gaza and “for life to return to normal… before it’s too postponeed, before our nation is exfinishd”.
Several images – including the one below – have since eunited on social media shotriumphg the treatment of the injured from Beit Lahia at the Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The images have been verified by the BBC as being from the hospital.
Israel began a rerecented military insolent 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 bomb devicearded the densely-popupostponeedd Jabalia area, which integrates an urban refugee camp – with at least 33 people inestablished finished in a strike postponeed on Friday.
Humanitarian groups have alerted that virtuassociate no help has go ined the area in the past restricted weeks. Israel’s own statistics show that help transferies to Gaza as a whole have collapsed when appraised with the same period in September.
On Saturday, the UN’s top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, shelp that Palestinians in northern Gaza are finishuring “unspeakable horrors” and called for these “atrocities” to stop.
Israel has repeatedly denied it is stoping humanitarian help from go ining Gaza – but on Tuesday the US tancigo in it to increase access wilean 30 days or hazard having some American military helpance cut off.
At least 42,603 people have been finished and 99,795 injured in Gaza since the war began last October, the Hamas-run authorities say.
The war began after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, leaving around 1,200 people dead and 251 consentn to Gaza as captives. Israel vowed to raze Hamas in response, begining a ground insolent in the enclave.
Elsewhere, Israel persistd its air strikes agetst the Lebanese group Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday.
In a statement, the IDF shelp: “Earlier this morning, the IAF [Israel’s air force] carry outed an ininestablishigence-based strike on a order centre of Hezbollah’s ininestablishigence headquarters and an underground arms toilshop in Beirut”.
It compriseed that disconnectal steps were consentn to “shrink the possibility of civilian casualties”, including “issuing proceed alertings to livents”.
The IDF also inestablished that about 160 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese army shelp three of it sancigo iniers were finished after a military vehicle was hit by an Israeli air strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
Israel has not yet commented.
Lebanon’s army has historicassociate stayed out of traverse-border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah – but a number of its troops have been finished in Israeli attacks since battling escapostponeedd last month.
Hezbollah – a mighty militant group in Lebanon – says it has been firing on Israeli positions in firmarity with Hamas in Gaza.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas are backed by Iran.