At least 34 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday morning as Israeli forces continue to target civilian infrastructure across the shattered territory, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting, citing local medical sources.
A strike in Khan Younis killed at least 25 people, a medical source at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital told AFP.
The killings come just hours after Israel attacked three schools in Gaza City, killing at least 33 people, more than half of them children. More than 100 people were killed on Thursday alone.
The death toll from the 17-month war had climbed to more than 50,500 as of Thursday morning. Almost 1,200 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since 18 March, when Israel escalated its assault on the Gaza Strip and collapsed the six-week ceasefire with Hamas.
The latest attacks come as the Israeli military announced the start of a new ground offensive east of Gaza City to seize additional territory and incorporate it into a ‘security zone’.
In Lebanon, also on Friday morning, an Israel airstrike on the city of Sidon killed Hassan Farhat, a senior Hamas official, as well as his son and daughter.
