Israeli strikes kill 31 Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank Tuesday

Ahram Online , Tuesday 5 Nov 2024

At least 27 Palestinians were killed early on Tuesday by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, including on tents housing displaced people.

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People check burnt vehicles at the site of a reported attack by Israeli settlers in a residential area on the outskirts of Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank. AFP

 

Casualties were recorded in Beit Lahiya, Deir Al-Balah, and the town of Al-Zawayda, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

According to WAFA, 20 people were killed in a heavy airstrike on a home in Beit Lahiya in the northern part of Gaza; two people were killed when a tent in central Deir Al-Balah was hit; and four people were killed and others injured in a similar attack on a tent in Al-Zawayda.

It has not been possible for journalists to verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict independently.

In the occupied West Bank, at least four people were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes, according to the Palestinian health ministry. 

The ministry also said two people had been killed in the city of Qabatiya and two others in the Tammoun area, Reuters reported. 

The Palestinian news agency named one of those killed in Tammoun as Hani Bani Odeh and said the body of the second dead person there had been taken by Israeli forces.

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