Israeli strike in north Gaza kills 87, Hamas-run ministry says

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A number of people are still trapped under the rubble in Beit Lahia, local officials say

Gaza’s ******-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were ******* and more than 40 injured in Saturday’s ******** air strike on the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the ************ enclave.

The ministry said a number of people were still under the rubble after a residential area was hit.

******* said it was checking reports of casualties but added that earlier – lower – figures published by ****** were “exaggerated”. In recent weeks, the ******* military has been carrying out intense bombardment of northern Gaza, saying it wanted to prevent ****** fighters from regrouping there.

A senior UN official warned that the “nightmare in Gaza is intensifying” and the war “must stop now”.

The UN’s peace process co-ordinator, Tor Wennesland, has warned that “nowhere is safe in Gaza”.

In a statement, Tor Wennesland said he condemned the continuing attacks on civilians.

“This war must end, the hostages held by ****** must be freed, the displacement of Palestinians must cease, and civilians must be protected wherever they are. Humanitarian aid must be delivered unimpeded,” he said.

In a statement on Sunday, Gaza’s ******-run health ministry revised its ****** toll from 73 to 87 after the ******** strike on Beit Lahia.

The earlier casualty figures were provided by ****** late on Saturday.

The ministry also said that ambulance crews were unable to reach the site of the ******** strike.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) described the strike as a “precision” ******* on a “****** ******* target”. It told the BBC it was “doing everything possible to avoid causing harm to civilians”.

Dr Eid Sabbah, Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director of nursing, said the ******** strike in Beit Lahia had completely destroyed several buildings, with “more than four, five residential blocks… razed to the ground”.

The strikes targeted an entire residential square, Dr Sabbah said, in between Abu Jidian roundabout and Al Qassam mosque.

Dr Sabbah added that dozens of people were ******* and many were wounded “some of whom reached the hospital, some of whom remain under the rubble”.

He urged for an end to the “siege” on hospitals in northern Gaza and “for life to return to normal… before it’s too late, before our nation is exterminated”.

Several images – including the one below – have since emerged on social media showing the treatment of the injured from Beit Lahia at the Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The images have been verified by the BBC as being from the hospital.

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Injured people from Beit Lahia are treated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

******* began a renewed military offensive in northern Gaza in early October, saying it is trying to prevent ****** from regrouping in the area.

In particular, ******** forces have surrounded and bombarded the densely-populated Jabalia area, which includes an urban ******** camp –

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Humanitarian groups have warned that virtually no aid has entered the area in the past few weeks. *******’s own statistics show that aid deliveries to Gaza as a whole have collapsed when compared with the same ******* in September.

On Saturday, the UN’s top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring “unspeakable horrors” and called for these “atrocities” to stop.

******* has repeatedly denied it is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza – but on Tuesday

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Beit Lahia is near Jabalia, which has been the focus of *******’s military offensive in recent weeks

At least 42,603 ​people have been ******* and 99,795 injured in Gaza since the war began last October, the ******-run authorities say.

The war began after ****** attacked ******* on 7 October 2023, leaving around 1,200 people ***** and 251 taken to Gaza as hostages. ******* vowed to ******** ****** in response, launching a ground offensive in the enclave.

Elsewhere, ******* continued its air strikes against the Lebanese group Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday.

In a statement, the IDF said: “Earlier this morning, the IAF [*******’s air force] conducted an intelligence-based strike on a command centre of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters and an underground weapons workshop in Beirut”.

It added that several steps were taken to “reduce the possibility of civilian casualties”, including “issuing advance warnings to residents”.

The IDF also reported that about 160 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern *******.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese army said three of it soldiers were ******* after a military vehicle was hit by an ******** air strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

******* has not yet commented.

Lebanon’s army has historically stayed out of cross-border clashes between ******* and Hezbollah – but a number of its troops have been ******* in ******** attacks since fighting escalated last month.

Hezbollah – a powerful militant group in Lebanon – says it has been ******* on ******** positions in solidarity with ****** in Gaza.

Both Hezbollah and ****** are backed by Iran.

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