The Israeli military says it has begun a ground operation against Hamas in the Bureij refugee camp and east of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Troops backed by air strikes were targeting “terrorists and terrorist infrastructure above and below ground”, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
The charity Médecins Sans Frontières said at least 70 dead people and 300 wounded, the majority of them women and children, had been brought to a hospital in Deir al-Balah since Tuesday.
It comes as US, Egyptian and Qatari mediators meet in Doha and Cairo to discuss how to finalise a new ceasefire and hostage release deal.
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Israeli forces are continuing their offensive in central Gaza, targeting civilian areas including the Bureij camp and eastern Deir el-Balah with a series of air strikes.
ReplyDeleteInjured Palestinians are being rescued from neighborhoods in central Gaza that have been under intense Israeli attack.
In a recent mission, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) recovered the bodies of six Palestinians killed in Israeli bombardment and found eight others wounded in the Ja’frawi neighborhood, east of Deir el-Balah.