Children among 58 killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, say medics
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Victims reported to include six people escorting aid convoy, and eight in tent encampment in humanitarian zone. Health authorities in Gaza said on Monday that 58 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the previous 24 hours, including a strike on a tent encampment in al-Mawasi, an Israel-declared humanitarian zone, that left eight dead.
Two children were among the dead in the al-Mawasi strike, according to doctors at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies. The hospital said it had recorded another six fatalities from a strike on individuals escorting an aid convoy, along with two additional deaths from an attack on a vehicle within al-Mawasi.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah said it had received three bodies after an airstrike on a school turned shelter in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military says it strikes only militants, accusing them of hiding among civilians. It said late on Sunday that it had targeted Hamas fighters in the humanitarian zone. Hamas denies it operates among civilians.
The head of the Kamal Adwan hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, told Reuters Israel had ordered the evacuation of the facility. Hussam Abu Safiya said that obeying the order was “next to impossible” because there were not enough ambulances to get patients out. Kamal Adwan hospital has been under repeated attack since Israel sent tanks into Beit Lahiya and nearby Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya in October.
