Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians overnight and yesterday in the Gaza Strip, medics said, as efforts to revive Gaza ceasefire talks received a boost with officials from the Palestinian group Hamas headed to Cairo for a new round of talks.
Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight long-standing refugee camps.
Late yesterday, an Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, medics said.
Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, medics added.
There was no fresh statement by the Israeli military yesterday, but on Thursday it said its forces were continuing to “strike terror targets as part of the operational activity in the Gaza Strip”.
Israeli tanks had entered northern and western areas of Nuseirat on Thursday. They withdrew from northern areas yesterday but remained active in western parts of the camp. The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said teams were unable to respond to distress calls from residents trapped in their homes.
Dozens of Palestinians returned yesterday to areas where the army had retreated to check on damage to their homes.
(Reuters)
