ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
An Israeli army strike on a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others, the territory’s civil defence agency said early Tuesday. The army said it targeted a Hamas command centre in the Al-Mawasi area, which the military had designated a safe zone early in the war. Hamas has called the claim that its fighters were present at the scene of the strike a “blatant lie”. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments.
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Israel conducted a missile strike on a humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 40 people and injured 60 others. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants, but the Palestinian group denied allegations that its fighters were present in the area.
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At least 40,988 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 94,825 people wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. The Hamas-led October 7 attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 1,190 people, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures. Some 250 people were taken hostage, with about 100 remaining in Gaza. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.
Yesterday’s key developments:
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The Israeli military said it detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip because it has intelligence indicating that a number of “Palestinian suspects” are in the convoy and it wants to question them.
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The convoy of UN vehicles and staff was released after being detained for more than eight hours, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said.
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Syria’s health minister said that overnight Israeli strikes killed 18 people in central Hama province, updating earlier figures, while a war monitor gave a higher death toll for the raids on military sites.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
