Nearly 100 people have been killed in new Israeli attacks in northern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-controlled news agency said on Sunday.
An Israeli bomb hit a five-storey residential block in the city of Beit Lahia, killing 72 people, the report said. The building housed families displaced from their homes in other parts of the Gaza Strip. The victims included many women and children.
Another 24 people were killed and several injured in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the center of the Gaza Strip, the news agency said.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that rescuers were searching the rubble for bodies and survivors.
The Hamas-controlled health authority in the Gaza Strip reported that 47 Palestinians had been killed in fighting in the area in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths since the war began in October last year to 43,846. The figures make no distinction between combatants and civilians.
A Palestinian receives medical treatment at al-Awda hospital after Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp. Saed Abu Nabhan Apaimages/APA images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
