Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes have killed 22 people in northern Gaza

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************ officials say ******** strikes have ******* 22 people in northern Gaza

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — ******** strikes on northern Gaza have ******* at least 22 people, ************ medical officials said.

The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said that 11 women and two children were among those ******* in the strikes late Saturday on several homes and buildings in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. It said another 15 people were wounded and that the ****** toll could rise.

There was no immediate comment from the ******** military.

******* has been waging a massive air and ground offensive in northern Gaza for the last three weeks, after saying that ****** militants had regrouped there. Hundreds of people have been ******* and tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled to Gaza City in the latest wave of displacement in the yearlong war.

******* is still carrying out daily strikes across Gaza, even as it wages war with the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. On Saturday, ******** warplanes attacked Iran — which backs both ****** and Hezbollah — in response to an Iranian ballistic missile ******* earlier this month.

The cascading conflicts have raised fears of an all-out regional war pitting ******* and the ******* States against Iran and its militant proxies, which also include the Houthi rebels in Yemen and armed groups in Syria and Iraq.

******* says its strikes on Gaza only target militants, and it blames ****** for civilian casualties because the militants ****** in densely populated areas. The military rarely comments on individual strikes, which often ***** women and children.

The war began when ******-led militants blew holes in *******’s border wall and stormed into southern ******* in a surprise ******* on Oct. 7, 2023. They ******* around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, around a third of whom are believed to be *****.

*******’s retaliatory offensive has ******* more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to the local Health Ministry. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count but says more than half of those ******* were women and children.

The offensive has devastated much of the impoverished coastal territory and displaced around 90% of its population, often multiple times. Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into squalid tent camps along the coast, and aid groups say hunger is rampant.

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