A man cries as injured Palestinians are transferred to al-Aqsa hospital after an Israeli attack on al-Magazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Wednesday. Hamas officials reported a death toll of at least 27 in an Israeli strike on a UN school in al-Nuseirat, after Israel announced a fresh operation in central Gaza.A man cries as injured Palestinians are transferred to al-Aqsa hospital after an Israeli attack on al-Magazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Wednesday.
Footage on X posted by Palestinian journalists in the early hours of Thursday showed rows of bodies laid out at al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, and wounded children being treated on the floor. An Israeli military statement said of the new operation: “The forces of the 98th Division began a precise campaign in the areas of East Bureij and East Deir al-Balah, above and below ground at the same time.”
Abu Mohammed Abu Saif said two of his children were among the dead brought to al-Aqsa hospital after the earlier Israeli strikes. “This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express,” he said, adding that his children had been killed along with their mother, who had been unable to leave when others in the neighbourhood did.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh meanwhile said the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan.