———— Israeli strikes on Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, including in ‘safe zone’
———— Shells rained down on the neighbourhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin and Al-Sabra in Gaza City
———— 44 Palestinians killed in three strikes
———— Palestinian death toll in Israel’s Gaza offensive reaches 38,713
———— Netanyahu vows to ‘increase pressure’ on Hamas
DM Monitoring
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza: Hospital records show that Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed 24 people over-night into Tuesday.
The strikes in Nuseirat and Zawaida killed 10 women and four children, the records from Al Aqsa hospi-tal show. The Israeli military said it “conducted targeted raids on terror targets” in central Gaza, with-out elaborating. Another nine people were killed in strikes in southern Gaza late Monday, according to medical officials.
The deadly violence comes as Israel and Hamas are weighing the latest cease-fire proposal. Interna-tional mediators are working to push the two sides toward agreeing to a deal that would bring a halt to the devastating fighting and set free roughly 120 hostages still held by the militant group in Gaza.
Earlier, Israeli police said officers shot and killed a Palestinian after he stabbed a police officer Tuesday in the occupied West Bank.
Police said the officer was lightly wounded in the attack and identified the Palestinian as a 19-year-old from the Gaza Strip. It wasn’t immediately clear what he was doing in the West Bank.
Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli military said Palestinians opened fire on a car in the West Bank, lightly injur-ing a number of Israeli civilians. In a separate event in the territory, the military said forces opened fire on a “suspicious vehicle” that turned out to belong to an Israeli. Two Israeli civilians were lightly wounded as a result of the apparent mistaken fire, the military said.
The bloodshed is part of a wave of violence surging in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the territory during that time, according to the Palestin-ian Health Ministry, most of them in fighting with Israeli forces. Others were killed while throwing stones, or in protests against the military. Some of those killed were not involved in confrontations with Israeli forces. Palestinian attacks against Israelis in the West Bank have also been on the rise since the war broke out.
