Israel kills 40 in Gaza strikes amid fears of wider war

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******* ****** 40 in Gaza strikes amid fears of wider war

******** forces have stepped up air strikes across the Gaza Strip, ******** at least 40 people, ************ medics say, in further battle with ******-led militants as ******* braced for potential wider war in the region.

******** air strikes hit a cluster of houses in central Gaza’s Al-Bureij camp, ******** at least 15 people, and the nearby Al-Nuseirat camp, ******** four, medics said. Nuseirat and Bureij are among the densely populated enclave’s eight historic camps and seen by ******* as strongholds of armed militants.

******** aircraft also bombed a house in the heart of Gaza City in the north, ******** five Palestinians, while another air strike in the southern city of Khan Younis ******* one person and wounded others, according to medics.

Later on Thursday, 15 Palestinians were ******* and 30 injured in ******** bombings of two schools east of Gaza City, the territory’s Civil Emergency Service said in a statement.

The ******** military said it struck ****** command and control centres embedded in the Abdel-Fattah Hamouda and Al-Zahra schools in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, where ****** militants were operating.

It accused ****** of exploiting civilians and civilian properties for military purposes, an allegation ****** denies.

Footage circulated on social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed casualties being brought to a hospital on donkey carts.

The armed wings of ****** and Islamic ****** said they were ******* anti-tank rockets and mortar ****** at ******** forces operating across Gaza, causing deaths and injuries among them.

*******’s military said it had struck dozens of military targets across Gaza over the past 24 hours, including rocket launching pads.

******-led militants set off the Gaza war on October 7 last year with a shock, cross-border rampage into ******** communities, ******** 1200 Israelis and foreigners and seizing some 250 hostages, according to ******** tallies.

Since then, at least 39,699 Palestinians have been *******, including 22 within the past 24 hours, and 91,722 injured in *******’s devastating air and ground war in Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said in an update on Thursday.

The ministry in the ******-run territory does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its ****** lists.

As Gaza’s war churns on, ******* has been battening down for another ******* expected in the coming days following vows from Iran and its Lebanon proxy Hezbollah to retaliate for the assassinations last week of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.

A relatively contained conflict between ******* and Hezbollah along its northern border, a spillover from the Gaza fighting, now threatens to spiral into an all-out regional war.

On Thursday, dozens of Palestinians rushed into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis to bid farewell to slain relatives before carrying them away for burials.

Reuters footage showed relatives moving out the bodies of their loved ones in plastic bags with names written on them, and holding special prayers before the funerals.

The ******** military renewed evacuation orders to ************ residents in several districts in eastern Khan Younis, saying it would act forcefully against militants who had unleashed rockets from those areas.

The army posted the evacuation order on X, and residents said they had received text and audio messages.

Residents said dozens of families had begun to leave their homes and head west towards Al-Mawasi, a humanitarian-designated area but one that is overcrowded by displaced families from around the enclave.

On Thursday, the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a US-based, non-governmental humanitarian agency, said that a ************ staff member, Nadi Sallout, had been ******* while apparently off duty on Wednesday near Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza. The WCK said it was seeking further details.

The ******** military said it did not know of any such incident, adding that it had been in contact with WCK.

In April, seven WCK employees were ******* in an ******** air strike, spurring it to suspend operations for nearly a month.

******* said then its inquiries had found serious errors and breaches of procedure by its military, and that two senior officers had been dismissed and senior commanders reprimanded.

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