Israeli strikes kill 47 Palestinians in central Gaza, Palestinian news agency says

Gaza, Gaza Strip — 

Forty-seven Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, astir of them children and women, successful overnight Israeli bombardment of the the cardinal Gaza Strip, the Palestinian quality bureau WAFA reported Friday.

The attacks occurred successful the metropolis of Deir Al-Balah, the Nuseirat campy and the municipality of Al-Zawayda, it said.

The Israeli subject said its troops had identified and eliminated "several equipped terrorists" successful cardinal Gaza and had eliminated "dozens of terrorists" successful targeted raids successful bluish Gaza's Jabalia area.

The Gaza warfare began aft a Hamas onslaught connected Israel a twelvemonth agone killed 1,200 radical and led to the seizure of astir 250 hostages. Israel's counteroffensive successful Gaza has killed much than 42,400 Palestinians, with much than fractional of them women and children, according to Gaza wellness officials. The Israeli subject says the decease toll includes thousands of Hamas fighters.

Hamas has been designated violent organizations by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and others.

At slightest 46 Palestinians were killed successful Israeli subject strikes crossed the Gaza Strip connected Thursday, mostly successful the northbound wherever 1 onslaught deed a hospital, torching aesculapian supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave's wellness officials said.

Israel's subject has accused the Palestinian militant radical Hamas of utilizing Kamal Adwan Hospital successful Beit Lahiya for subject purposes and said "dozens of terrorists" person been hiding there. Health officials and Hamas contradict the assertion.

The wellness ministry successful the Gaza Strip called for each planetary bodies "to support hospitals and aesculapian unit from the brutality of the (Israeli) occupation."

Medical foundation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Thursday that 1 of its doctors astatine the hospital, Mohammed Obeid, had been detained Saturday by Israeli forces. It called for the extortion of him and each aesculapian unit who "are facing horrific unit arsenic they effort to supply care."