CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 120 Palestinians in the past 48 hours and hit a hospital on the northern outskirts of the enclave, injuring medical staff and damaging property. equipment, we learned on Saturday from Palestinian medical sources.
The dead included seven members of a family whose home was hit overnight in Zeitoun, Gaza City, health officials said. The others were killed in separate Israeli strikes in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
At the same time, Israeli forces have intensified their incursion and bombardment on the northern edge of the enclave where their main offensive has been taking place since the beginning of last month.
The Israeli military says its goal is to prevent Hamas fighters from carrying out attacks and regrouping in the area. Residents of the region say they fear that the aim is to permanently depopulate a strip of territory serving as a buffer zone, which Israel denies.
When questioned, the Israeli army said that after an initial examination, it was “not informed of a strike in the Kamal Adwan hospital area.”
The IDF is “doing everything in its power to avoid harming civilians,” the army added.
(Nidal al-Mughrabi with Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem, French version Nicolas Delame)
