Israeli airstrikes killed 20 Palestinians in central Gaza, including six children and three women, some of them inside a purported “safe zone” declared by the Israeli military, hospital authorities said. The strikes early Wednesday came as U.S.
A Palestinian boy wounded in the Israel i bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. A Palestinian boy wounded in the Israel i bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. A Palestinian woman hugs her son wounded in the Israel i bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
The camp, like others around Gaza, was originally erected to house Palestinians driven from their homes during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. It has grown into an urban neighborhood in the decades since.
The Israeli army said the airstrike near the school and reports of civilian casualties were under review, and claimed it was targeting a Hamas militant who took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, though it provided no immediate evidence. The military blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants fight in dense, urban areas. But the army rarely comments on what it is targeting in individual strikes, which often kill women and children.
Large parts of Gaza City and urban areas around it have been flattened or left a shattered landscape by previous Israeli assaults, andfrom eastern and central parts of Gaza City, staff at two hospitals — Al-Ahli and the Patients Friends Association Hospital — rushed to move patients and shut down, the United Nations said.
Only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are functioning, and those only partially, according to the United Nations’ humanitarian office.
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