By WAFAA SHURAFA DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike killed 17 Palestinians on Tuesday in a military-declared “safe zone” outside the sout…
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike killed 17 Palestinians on Tuesday in a military-declared “safe zone” outside the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
The strike raises to at least 59 the number of people killed in southern and central Gaza by strikes overnight into Tuesday.In central Gaza, strikes overnight into Tuesday killed 24 people. The deaths in Nuseirat and Zawaida included 10 women and four children.International mediators are working to push Israel and Hamas toward a deal that would halt the fighting and free about 120 hostages held by the militant group in Gaza.
In southern Gaza, nine people were killed in two separate strikes overnight Monday, according to medical officials and AP journalists. Four were killed in a blast that struck a house in eastern Khan Younis and five were killed in a strike on a street in southernmost Rafah, according to ambulance workers who transported the bodies to Nasser Hospital.
Hamas’ October attack killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and militants took about 250 hostage. About 120 remain in captivity, with about a third of them believed to be dead, according to Israeli authorities.
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