At least 17 dead as Israel ups military campaign in Gaza amid Lebanon ceasefire

Israeli subject strikes killed astatine slightest 17 Palestinians crossed the Gaza Strip connected Thursday, medics said, including successful a onslaught astatine a exile camp.

Six radical were killed successful 2 abstracted aerial strikes connected a location and adjacent the infirmary of Kamal Adwan successful Beit Lahiya successful the bluish Gaza Strip, medics said, portion 4 others were killed erstwhile an Israeli onslaught deed a motorcycle successful Khan Younis successful the south.

In Nuseirat, 1 of Gaza's 8 historical exile camps, Israeli planes carried retired respective aerial strikes, destroying a multi-storey gathering and hitting roads extracurricular mosques.

At slightest 7 were killed successful those strikes, wellness officials said.

Medics said astatine slightest 2 people, a pistillate and a child, were killed successful vessel shelling that deed occidental areas of Nuseirat, portion an airstrike killed 5 others successful a location nearby.

In Rafah, adjacent the borderline with Egypt, residents reported seeing tanks propulsion deeper into the northwest country of the city.

There has been nary Israeli remark connected the latest fighting.

Israel's 13-month run successful Gaza aimed astatine eradicating Hamas has killed astir 44,200 radical and displaced overmuch of the enclave's population.

Months of efforts to negociate a ceasefire person truthful acold not proved successful, and negotiations are present connected hold.

Mediator Qatar has suspended its efforts until the sides are prepared to marque concessions.

A ceasefire successful the parallel struggle betwixt Israel and Hamas' Lebanese state Hezbollah took effect earlier dawn connected Wednesday, bringing a halt to hostilities there.

Announcing the woody connected Tuesday, US president Joe Biden said helium would present renew his propulsion for an elusive statement successful Gaza, urging Israel and Hamas to prehend the moment.

The Lebanon truce has renewed calls for ceasefire successful Gaza among the enclave’s 2.3 cardinal people.

"I anticipation a ceasefire volition hap similar it did successful Lebanon... I conscionable privation to instrumentality my children to spot my land, my house, to spot what they did to us, I privation to unrecorded successful safety," Amal Abu Hmeid, a displaced pistillate successful Gaza, told Reuters.

"God consenting we volition person a truce," she said.

"(Life) was beauteous (before the war)... Now determination is thing beautiful, it's each gone.

“Our houses are gone, our brothers are gone, and nary 1 is left. Now we hardly get... 1 repast a day. We can’t adjacent get bread.”