Israeli strikes kill 20 Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 20 Palestinians yesterday, including six people who were killed in attacks on tents housing displaced families, medics said.
Four people, two of them children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent encampment in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi, designated as a humanitarian zone, while two others were killed in temporary shelters in the southern city of Rafah and another in drone fire, health officials said.
In Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza, medics said an Israeli missile struck a house, killing at least two people and wounding several others. On Sunday, medics and residents said dozens of people were killed or wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a multi-floor residential building in the town.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 43,922 people have been confirmed killed since the offensive erupted on October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, the US official overseeing contacts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon is due to visit Beirut today, sources in Lebanon said yesterday, with Beirut expected give its response to a US truce proposal.
Israel continued to pound Lebanon, killing eight more paramedics in an air raid on central Beirut yesterday. The Israeli campaign has uprooted more than 1 million people in Lebanon.
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