Jerusalem: Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes early today killing at least 70 people, Hamas officials said as the military said it had struck some 320 targets in the Palestinian enclave in 24 hours.
The Israeli military said Monday it had hit “over 320 military targets in the Gaza Strip” over the past 24 hours.
“The terror targets struck included tunnels containing Hamas terrorists, dozens of operational command centres… and Islamic Jihad terrorists, military compounds, and observation posts,” the army said in a statement.
Israel’s attacks concentrated on the Gaza Strip’s centre and north, Palestinian media reported. A strike on a house near the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killed several Palestinians and wounded others, according to media reports.
Gaza’s health ministry spokesman said on Sunday that since Oct. 7, Israeli strikes on Gaza have resulted in the death of 4,651 Palestinians, of which 40% were children. More than 14,245 others have been wounded, with 70% of them being children and women.
The spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that Israeli strikes had killed 266 Palestinians over the past 24 hours, including 117 children. Health authorities in Gaza said at least 4,600 people were killed in Israel’s two-week bombardment that began after a Hamas Oct. 7 rampage on southern Israeli communities in which 1,400 people were killed and 212 were taken into Gaza as hostages.