Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza is continuing for a third consecutive day, with more than 70 people killed in predawn attacks, including a newborn baby.
At least 71 people were killed overnight and early on Thursday in southern and northern Gaza, according to health officials in the coastal enclave. Many others were injured in the attacks.
Palestinian news outlet Quds News Network said at least 20 people were killed in Khan Younis in the south after Israeli forces struck several houses in the area.
Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, an attack on a family home in the as-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Beit Lahiya, killed at least seven people.
“The Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have intensified, especially at dawn, when at least 11 residential buildings were flattened by the Israeli forces,” said media’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from central Gaza.
“We understand that the death toll has sharply increased to 71 Palestinians.”
“Among those victims who have been killed today were a newborn baby alongside children and women,” Abu Azzoum said.
“There has been a clear strategic approach that Israel has been using, which does not pass any sort of warning to civilians before striking the buildings that they are taking refuge in,” he added.
The latest killings come after Israel shattered the nearly two-month-long ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday. Since then, Israeli attacks have killed more than 710 Palestinians and injured 900 others, Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health, told media Arabic. About 70 percent of the injured are children and women, he added.
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