Gaza: As many as 39 people were martyred and 105 injured across the territory in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported.
More Palestinians have succumbed to their burn wounds after an Israeli strike hit their shelter in Gaza City overnight, raising the death toll there to at least 13, with reports of six people remaining under the rubble.
The school-turned-shelter was one of several sites hit in Gaza on Wednesday. Gaza’s civil defence said four more bodies were pulled from two nearby homes.
Rescue teams know at least six more victims remain trapped beneath the rubble in Gaza City, but they are unable to reach them.
“It’s not just their inability to get to the area,” he said. “They lack the heavy equipment needed to remove the rubble and recover the bodies.”
The latest attacks came as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas to release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.
Hamas, which governs Gaza and rivals Abbas’s PA, has said it would release all captives in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal and a permanent end to the war – but has rejected Israel’s demand to disarm, calling it a “red line”.
