Palestinians flee from a school where they has taken refuge, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 27, 2024. AFP
At least 30 people sheltering at a girls’ school in Deir Al-Balah were taken to Al Aqsa Hospital and pronounced dead after a strike that Israel’s military claimed it targeted a Hamas command and control centre used to store weapons and plan attacks, according to AP.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said 11 people were killed in other strikes on a hospital on Saturday.
Israel’s military ordered the evacuation of a part of a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza ahead of a planned strike on Khan Younis on Saturday, as the country's negotiators prepare to meet international mediators to discuss a proposed cease-fire.
The evacuation order is in response to rocket fire that Israel said originated from the area. The military said it planned an operation against Hamas militants in the city, including parts of Muwasi, the crowded tent camp in an area where Israel has told thousands of Palestinians to seek refuge throughout the war.
Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israel's military operation in the area of Khan Younis city has killed around 170 people and wounded hundreds since it began on Monday.
"Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the Khan Younis area, we are talking of approximately 170 martyrs and hundreds of wounded," the agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
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