Middle East crisis: 20 killed in Gaza overnight with strike on ‘humanitarian zone’ among deadly attacks – as it happened
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Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight killed at least 20 people, Palestinian medics have said. One of the airstrikes hit a tent camp in the so-called “humanitarian zone” of al-Mawasi which has been targeted by deadly Israeli airstrikes before and is reportedly overcrowded. The airstrike killed eight people, including two children, according to Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, which received the bodies.
![[Members of the presidential guard stand as people mourn a member of the security forces who was killed in clashes with Palestinian militants in Jenin, during the funeral in Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4013acf082c0271cae61057d959a6aa6f0819c20/6_0_5467_3280/master/5467.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed at least 20 people overnight, including an airstrike on a tent encampment in the so-called humanitarian safe zone of al-Mawasi that killed eight people. Four people were reportedly killed in an Israeli attack on an area north of the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
![[Children look at a bus destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in al-Mawasi, south-west of Khan Younis,in southern Gaza.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/637f2bcc16e3bb81f72e75c4f45e800ce03ef6fc/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
At least 45,317 Palestinian people have been killed and 107,713 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said. Of those, 58 Palestinians were killed and 86 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period, the ministry said.
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Only 12 out of the 34 trucks of food and water allowed to enter north Gaza over the last 10 weeks have managed to distribute aid to starving Palestinian civilians because of “deliberate delays and systematic obstructions” by the Israeli military, Oxfam said.
![[Palestinian children inspect the remains of a car in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c02110a6438a505e8545806570d99eda5cb850b4/0_190_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock warned that a war by Turkey against the Kurdish groups in Syria “must not happen”, saying that in the end this could empower “the IS terrorists”. “That would be a security threat for Syria, but also for Turkey and for us in Europe,” Baerbock told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
![[Mourners take part in the funeral of Palestinian people killed in Israeli airstrikes, in Khan Younis.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/48d92a2d2282e513fbf0544f2c487f78588f2bde/0_14_5500_3301/master/5500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
