- GAZA — At least 29 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others
injured on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential block in
the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, Hamas said.
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- Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defence,
told Xinhua news agency that rescue teams were still searching for survivors
and bodies trapped under the rubble.
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- Palestinian security sources said the strike targeted
eight adjacent homes, destroying the entire area with multiple missiles.
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- The Israeli military has not commented on the incident.
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- The airstrike came as health authorities in Gaza reported
that hospitals had received 36 bodies and 41 injured individuals in the past 24
hours.
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- According to Gaza-based health officials, the number of
Palestinians killed since Israel resumed military operations on March 18 has
risen to 1,482, with 3,688 wounded.
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- In a separate incident in the central Gaza Strip, two
Palestinians were killed and one injured when Israeli forces struck a residential
house in the city of Nuseirat, Basal said.
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- In the south, an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering
displaced people in Khan Younis killed an elderly man and a woman, he added.
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- Gaza's Civil Defence warned that several victims remain
trapped under debris or on the streets, unreachable by emergency teams due to
ongoing hostilities, Xinhua news agency reported.
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- Earlier on April 3, at least 29 Palestinians were killed
and more than 100 others injured in an Israeli attack on the Dar Al-Arqam
school, east of Gaza City, the Hamas-run Gaza media office said.
