At least 42 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up Gaza attacks
According to medical sources, at least 42 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza-area Israeli attacks.
Twenty-four people were killed in Israeli strikes on central Gaza’s Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight longstanding refugee camps, sources told Al Jazeera on Friday.
At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Friday when an Israeli plane exploded inside a home in Beit Lahiya, according to doctors.
According to the doctors, others died in the enclave’s northern and southern regions.
On Thursday, the Israeli military stated that its forces were continuing to “strike terror targets as part of the Gaza Strip’s operational activity.”
On Thursday, Israeli tanks entered Nuseirat’s northern and western regions.
According to the Reuters news agency, some tanks left northern areas on Friday, but they remained active in the camp’s western regions.
The Palestinian Civil Defense claimed that teams could not handle calls from stranded residents.
On Friday, dozens of Palestinians who had fled the country returned to areas where the army had been hiding to inspect the damage to their homes. Medical professionals and relatives carried away bodies lying on stretchers while covering them with blankets or white shrouds, including those of women, from the road.
Ahmed al-Kahlout, the head of the Intensive Care Unit at Beit Lahiya, where the Israeli ground forces have been conducting operations since early October, was killed by an Israeli drone strike, according to doctors.
One of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza currently lacked adequate medical care, fuel, and food supplies.
Most of its medical staff , have , been detained or expelled by the Israeli army,  , health officials say.
Since October 5, the Israeli army has been stationed in Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon, and Jabalia to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping and carrying out attacks there.
Residents have accused the army of destroying the Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, as well as the towns of.
Three killed in bakery stampede
In addition to the worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory, two children and a woman were crushed to death on Friday, according to doctors in Gaza as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery there.
A doctor at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, confirmed that the bodies of two 13- and 17-year-old girls and a 50-year-old woman had died from suffocation as a result of crowding at the al-Banna bakery.
In addition, about 30 Palestinians who had been detained by Israeli authorities during its recent offensive in Gaza have been released.
Those released arrived at a hospital in southern , Gaza , for medical checkups, medics said.
Freed Palestinians, detained during the war, have complained of ill-treatment and torture in Israeli detention after they were released. Israel denies torture.
Months of efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in , Gaza , have yielded scant progress, and negotiations are now on hold.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, and Israel’s Hezbollah, which is now at war, came to an end to hostilities that had sharply escalated in recent months and had overshadowed the Gaza conflict, with a ceasefire coming into effect before dawn on Wednesday.
Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed at least 44, 363 people, mostly women and children, since October 2023, according to Palestinian health officials.
Source: Aljazeera
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