The strikes came as as the Israeli military announced it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men, in a move that could rattle the government.
The strikes late on Monday night and into Tuesday , came as the Israeli military announced it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men, in a move that could rattle the government.
Tuesday's deadliest strike hit on a main street lined with market stalls outside the southern city of Khan Younis in Muwasi, at the heart of the zone that is packed with tent camps. Officials at Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital said 17 people were killed. That blast, in an area also surrounded by tents, killed more than 90 Palestinians, including children, according to Gaza health officials. It is still not known if Deif was killed in the strike.
An Associated Press journalist saw the bodies, some wrapped in blankets and a floral sheet, as they were taken to Al Aqsa hospital in the nearby town of Deir al-Balah, where hospital officials provided the death count. The military said air force planes struck some 40 targets in Gaza over the past day, among them observation posts, Hamas military structures and explosives-rigged buildings.
Violence has also surged in the West Bank. On Tuesday a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli policeman, wounding him lightly, before another officer opened fire, killing the assailant who was identified as a 19-year-old from Gaza.
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