About thirty people have been killed in new Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.
Israeli warplanes attacked a former school building in Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood where displaced people were sheltering, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
At least eight people were killed in the attack, WAFA said.
The Israeli army said it had “carried out a precise strike on Hamas terrorists operating in a command and control center in the Daraj Tuffah area.” The strike took place overnight, the report said.
WAFA also reported a targeted airstrike on a vehicle in Gaza City, killing four Palestinians.
Another 16 people were killed in attacks in the center and southern Gaza Strip, the report said.
WAFA reported that Israeli forces continued to demolish residential buildings in the northern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, adding that shelling remained heavy across the region.
According to Palestinian sources, more than 45,200 people have been killed since the start of the Gaza war following the October 7, 2023 attack by the Palestinian militant Hamas movement from the Gaza Strip. The attack claimed 1,200 lives and more than 250 people were kidnapped.
Member of Palestinian security forces killed in Jenin
Later on Sunday, a member of the Palestinian security forces was killed and two others injured during an operation against armed Palestinians in Jenin, a Palestinian Authority (PA) spokesman said.
The gunmen had opened fire on security forces in the refugee camp, the spokesman said.
This is the first fatality among security forces since the start of the campaign in Jenin early this month. Three residents were also killed, including a leading member of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Jenin is known as a stronghold of militant Palestinians and is regularly raided by the Israeli army. Observers believe that the PA fears an armed uprising in the West Bank and a loss of control similar to that in the Gaza Strip.
In 2006, Hamas won the last Palestinian parliamentary elections. The following year, they forcibly took exclusive control of the Gaza Strip, driving the more moderate Fatah out of the area.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas heads both the Palestinian Authority and the secular Palestinian organization Fatah and has since effectively ruled alone in the West Bank.
