An Israeli strike on a five-storey building sheltering displaced Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 60 people, Gaza's Health Ministry says.
Israel has carried out more airstrikes and waged a bigger ground operation in northern Gaza in recent weeks, saying it is focused on rooting out pockets of Hamas militants that have regrouped there after more than a year of war.Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, October 29, 2024.
He said other UN agencies and international organisations distributing aid in Gaza rely on its logistics and thousands of workers.An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past the east Jerusalem compound of UNRWA, the UN agency helping Palestinian refugees, Tuesday, October 29, 2024. In Lebanon, the militant group Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month.
Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner "condemns this attack in the strongest terms and calls on all sides immediately to cease combat operations in the surroundings of the U.N. mission's positions", ministry spokesperson Michael Bauer wrote on the social network X.Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, listens to a speech by then-leader Hassan Nasrallah on a screen in southern Beirut, Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
The Israeli military has repeatedly struck shelters for displaced people in recent months. It says it carries out precise strikes targeting Palestinian militants and tries to avoid harming civilians, but the strikes often kill women and children. Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel, drawing retaliation, after Hamas' surprise attack out of Gaza on October 7, 2023, triggered the war there. Iran, which backs both groups, has also directly traded fire with Israel, in April and then again this month.
Israel says UNRWA has been infiltrated by Hamas and that the militant group siphons off aid and uses UN facilities to shield its activities, allegations denied by the UN agency.
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