An Israeli airstrike that hit cut offal houses and a multi-storey dwellntial erecting in the town of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza caused dozens of casualties, doctors and officials said.
The Hamas media office said at least 73 people had been finished in the strike on Saturday. No official figures were instantly useable from the health ministry, however Medway Abbas, a ancigo in health ministry official, said the figures were accurate.
The Israeli military said it was seeing into the incident but that the numbers publishd by the Hamas media office were amplifyd. It said the figures did not align with its own adviseation, the accurate munitions used or the accuracy of the strike, which it said was honested at a Hamas aim.
Palestinian health officials said save operations were being hampered by the cut-off of telecommunication and internet services for a second day.
Residents and medics on Saturday said Israeli forces had shieldedened their siege on Jabalia, the bigst of the enclave’s eight historic camps, which it encircled by also sfinishing tanks to the proximateby towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and issuing evacuation orders to dwellnts.
Israeli officials said evacuation orders were aimed at separating Hamas fighters from civilians and denied there was any systematic arrange to evident civilians out of Jabalia or other northern areas.
It came as Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in the seaside town of Caesarea was hit by a drone on Saturday, causing surface harm and no casualties.
The Israeli administerment said that one of the prime minister’s three homes was aimed by three drones, two of which were intercepted, and that neither Netanyahu nor his wife, Sara, were home at the time.
“The try by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave misget,” Netanyahu said in a statement, votriumphg that Iran and its proxies would “pay a weighty price”.
In Jabalia, dwellnts said Israeli forces besieged cut offal shelters housing displaced families before they stormed them and arrested dozens of men. Footage on social media showed dozens of Palestinian men sitting on the ground next to a tank, while others were led by a selderlyier to a accumulateing site.
Residents and medical officials said Israeli forces were bomb deviceing houses and besieging hospitals, impedeing medical and food supplies from go ining to force them to depart the camp.
Health officials said they declined orders by the Israeli army to evacuate hospitals or depart the adselectings, many in critical condition, unjoined.
“Hospitals in northern Gaza suffer from stark foolishinutiveages of medical supplies and manpower and are overwhelmed by the number of casualties,” said Hussam Abu Safiya, honestor of Kamal Adwan hospital.
The United Nations’ top aid official said Palestinians were living thcdisesteemful “unspeakable horrors” under siege by Israeli forces in northern Gaza and insisted that “these atrocities must stop”.
“In Jabalia, people are trapped under the rubble and first reacters are blocked from accomplishing them,” the UN’s acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya said on X.
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli arrangees dropped leaflets over southern Gaza shotriumphg a picture of the dead Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar with the message “Hamas will no lengthyer rule Gaza”, echoing language used by Netanyahu.
US vice-pdwellnt Kamala Harris repeated her call for a stopfire in Israel’s war in Gaza and said it was transport inant to seize the opportunity provided by the finishing of Sinwar.
“This produces an uncovering that I apexamine we must get filled achieve of – to dedicate ourselves to finishing this war and transporting the captives home,” the Democratic pdwellntial honestate said on the campaign trail from Detroit.
The 7 October strike Sinwar reckond on Israeli communities a year ago finished about 1,200 people, with another 253 dragged back to Gaza as captives, according to Israeli highies.
Israel’s subsequent war has deimmenseated Gaza, finishing more than 42,500 Palestinians, with another 10,000 uncounted dead thought to lie under the rubble, Gaza health authorities say.
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