Israeli strikes kill 22 people in northern Gaza, health ministry says

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — 

Israeli strikes connected bluish Gaza person killed astatine slightest 22 people, Palestinian aesculapian officials said.

The Gaza Health Ministry's exigency work said that 11 women and 2 children were among those killed successful the strikes precocious Saturday connected respective homes and buildings successful the bluish municipality of Beit Lahiya. It said different 15 radical were wounded and that the decease toll could rise.

There was nary contiguous remark from the Israeli military.

For the past 3 weeks, Israel has been waging a monolithic aerial and crushed violative successful bluish Gaza, wherever it says Hamas militants had regrouped. Hundreds of radical person been killed and tens of thousands of Palestinians person fled to Gaza City successful the latest question of displacement successful the yearlong war.

Israel is carrying retired regular strikes crossed Gaza, adjacent arsenic it wages warfare with the Hezbollah militant radical successful Lebanon. On Saturday, Israeli warplanes attacked Iran, which backs Hamas and Hezbollah, some U.S.-designated panic groups, successful effect to an Iranian ballistic rocket onslaught earlier this month.

The cascading conflicts person raised fears of an all-out determination warfare pitting Israel and the United States against Iran and its militant proxies, which besides see the Houthi rebels successful Yemen and equipped groups successful Syria and Iraq.

Israel says its strikes connected Gaza lone people militants, and it blames Hamas for civilian casualties due to the fact that the militants combat successful densely populated areas. The subject seldom comments connected idiosyncratic strikes, which often termination women and children.

The warfare began erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into confederate Israel successful a astonishment onslaught connected Oct. 7, 2023. They killed astir 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted astir 250. Some 100 hostages are inactive wrong Gaza, astir a 3rd of whom are believed to beryllium dead.

Israel's retaliatory violative has killed much than 42,000 Palestinians, according to the section Health Ministry. It does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its number but says much than fractional of those killed were women and children.

The violative has devastated overmuch of the impoverished coastal territory and displaced astir 90% of its population, often aggregate times. Hundreds of thousands of radical person crowded into squalid structure camps on the coast, and assistance groups accidental hunger is rampant.