At least 38 people were killed and dozens of others injured, health officials said.
Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday, killing at least 38 people and injuring dozens of others, health officials said
Israel has rejected the idea of halting its offensive, even for humanitarian reasons. Instead, it said Hamas is “encountering the full force” of its troops.Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip Arafat Abu Mashaia, who lives in the camp, said the Israeli air strike flattened several multistorey homes where people forced out of other parts of Gaza were sheltering.
Critics say Israel’s strikes are often disproportionate, considering the large number of women and children killed. Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said Arab countries want an immediate ceasefire, saying “the whole region is sinking in a sea of hatred that will define generations to come”. Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City
Israel has repeatedly demanded that northern Gaza’s 1.1 million residents flee south, and on Saturday it offered a three-hour window for residents to do so. An Associated Press journalist on the road, however, saw nobody going.There was no immediate Hamas comment on that claim, which was impossible to verify.
The conflict has stoked tensions across the region, with Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group repeatedly trading fire along the border.
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