Israeli air strikes on Gaza City kill dozens, Hamas says

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Two ******** air strikes on buildings in Gaza City have ******* at least 38 people and injured many more, ****** says.

The ******** military said warplanes had struck ****** military infrastructure sites and it would provide more details later.

A spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence said a residential block in the al-Shati area, one of Gaza’s historic ******** camps, was hit several times. The other strike targeted houses in the al-Tuffah district, the ******-run government media office said.

Footage showed people carrying away the wounded and searching for survivors in the wreckage as dust filled the streets.

Earlier reports put the estimated ****** toll at 42.

******** media reported that the air strikes may have been targeting a senior ****** official.

Hussein Muhaisen, a civil defence spokesman in Gaza City, told AFP that the impact from the strikes was “like an earthquake”.

“The whole area was targeted, as you see homes were destroyed. There are still families under the rubble,” he said.

“Some of the injured were transferred to the ******** Hospital, and now we are rescuing others from under the rubble, and the situation is very, very difficult due to the lack of tools and fuel for ambulances.”

Meanwhile the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the EU condemned Friday’s

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, which the ICRC said had ******* 22 people who had sought shelter around its compound.

Mr Borrell called for an independent investigation and for those responsible to be held accountable.

On Saturday the ******* Defense Forces (IDF) said an initial inquiry into the ********* in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza found there was “no direct ******* carried out by the IDF against a Red Cross facility”.

It said the incident would be “quickly examined” and the findings presented.

******* launched a campaign to ******** ****** in response to an unprecedented ******* on southern ******* on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people – mostly civilians – were ******* and 251 others were taken ********.

More than 37,551 people have been ******* in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s ******-run health ministry.

Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it had reportedly identified 14,680 children, women and elderly people among the ***** by the end of April.

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