About 30 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza as truce talks set to resume
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‘Harsh day’ of bombardments with several children among dead, says Gaza’s civil defence agency. Gaza’s civil defence agency said about 30 people were killed in Israeli bombardments on Friday, as Hamas said indirect negotiations for a truce in the war were set to resume in Qatar.
The Israeli military said three rockets targeted its territory from the Gaza Strip, the latest in a flurry of launches by militants in the devastated Palestinian territory. “Friday was a harsh day for the residents of Gaza, particularly in Gaza City, due to the continual Israeli bombardment,” civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
He said several children were among the dead. Seven people were killed in an Israeli strike in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, Bassal said. Gaza resident Mohammed Abu Labda, whose brother was among those killed, said for Israel it was an “act of revenge”. “They’ve destroyed everything that moves on this Earth, even the trees, so what about people? This is a war of extermination,” he told AFP.
The Israeli military said that over the previous 24 hours, “the Israeli air force struck approximately 40 Hamas terrorist gathering points”. Some of the targets “were embedded in areas that previously served as schools”, it said. Bassal denied the allegation. He accused the military of “preventing food and drinking water from reaching dozens of medical staff, patients and wounded” at the Indonesian hospital in the northern town of Beit Lahia.
