Dozens of people were killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabilia in the northern Gaza Strip at dawn on Sunday, according to Palestinian medical personnel.
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Footage circulating on social media, which reporters could not immediately verify, showed about a dozen bodies wrapped in blankets and laid on the ground at a hospital. Residents said the building targeted by Israel housed at least 30 people.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA and Hamas media put the number of people killed at 32. There was no immediate confirmation of the tally by the territory’s health ministry.
The Civil Emergency Service says its operations have been halted by an ongoing Israeli raid into two towns and a refugee camp in northern Gaza that began on October 5. It could not provide a figure for those killed in the attack.
Israel says it sent forces into Jabilia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in the north of the enclave to fight Hamas militants staging attacks from there and to prevent them from regrouping. It says its troops have killed hundreds of militants in those areas since the new offensive began.
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