PALESTINE – Welcome to Israel-Gaza war live updates where we bring you the latest news from Gaza Strip: – Fresh Israeli attacks in Gaza Today (Wednesday) have left at least 48 Palestinians dead (with the number projected to rise), and others injured, including women and children, as Israel continues its onslaught on the strip.
Six people, including a child, lost their lives in Israeli shelling in Jabalia and Khan Younis in northern and southern Gaza, a medical source said.
The official news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, said 18 people were killed and several others injured in a strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians inside a school in Khan Younis.
Several children were among the victims, Wafa said.
Medics confirmed that the bodies of 14 victims were transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex in the city, while 12 people were injured in the attack.
Seven people were also killed and many others injured when Israeli forces shelled groups of civilians in northern Gaza, a medical source said.
Another Palestinian was killed and 10 others were wounded, mostly women, in an Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the source added.
Four other people lost their lives when Israeli forces shelled two homes in Gaza City and Khan Younis, witnesses said.
In central Gaza, a Palestinian woman was killed in Deir al-Balah after an Israeli strike hit her tent. Two more Palestinians were killed in Jabalia when Israeli forces shelled a civilian gathering.
Medical crews recovered the bodies of three children following an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. The bodies of two more people were retrieved in the Joret al-Lout area of Khan Younis.
The Israeli army also fired at homes in the Qizan al-Najjar area in southern Khan Younis and the northeastern areas of Gaza City, WAFA said. No reports have emerged yet about casualties.
New Israeli Offensive in West Bank Launched
In other news, the Israeli army launched a military offensive in two Palestinian areas in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, in the latest escalation in the occupied territory, local sources said.
The sources said Israeli forces pushed into the town of Tammun and the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas city amid military reinforcements.
Sounds of gunfire were heard as Israeli military bulldozers destroyed infrastructure and roads in the area, the sources said. Several houses were raided during the raid.
Kamal Bani Odeh, the local director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society in Tubas, said nearly 10 people, including freed prisoners, were detained by the Israeli forces in Tammun and two others in the Far’a refugee camp.
Since the start of the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, at least 973 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,000 injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.