Health officials: At least 20 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip

The 20-month war with Hamas rages even as Israel opens a new front with attacks on Iran, prompting retaliation, AP writes

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Smoke over Gaza, Photo: Reuters
Smoke over Gaza, Photo: Reuters
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At least 20 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight between Friday and Saturday, according to local health officials.

It was previously reported that 16 people were killed in the bombing.

Another 11 were killed near food distribution points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers were shooting at people waiting for food, but Israel, as in previous attacks, said they were only firing warning shots.

The 20-month war with Hamas rages even as Israel opens a new front with attacks on Iran, prompting retaliation, AP writes.

The private Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the US and Israel, said the distribution centers were closed again. But witnesses said thousands of people had gathered near the centers, desperate for food, as the Israeli blockade and war pushed them to the brink of starvation.

Al-Awda Hospital said it received eight bodies and at least 125 wounded people in the shooting near the Foundation Center.

In the southern city of Khan Yunis, Nasser Hospital said it had received 16 dead, including five women, from multiple Israeli strikes late Friday and early Saturday. It said three other men were killed near two Relief Foundation sites in the southernmost town of Rafah, now a largely uninhabited military zone.

An Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, killed four people, Al-Aqsa Hospital said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said two missiles had arrived from Gaza and landed in an open area, and that there were no injuries.

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