At least 39 people were killed in an Israeli attack in northern Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian officials and hospital sources said, as rescuers continued to search for survivors under the rubble. according to To the Associated Press.
More than 30 bodies were brought to Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, the hospital’s director told The Associated Press. Gaza’s emergency response group, the Palestinian Civil Defense, said it had retrieved dozens of bodies from buildings in Gaza City that had been hit by Israeli forces.
“Fighter jets recently struck two military facilities used by the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. Said “More details will be announced at a later date,” read a translation of a post on social platform X on Saturday morning.[.]”
The reported deaths in Gaza on Saturday came alongside an escalation in the conflict between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah on the Lebanese border. Lebanese military and political groups have linked ongoing cross-border shelling into northern Israel to Israeli military operations in Gaza.
The Associated Press also reported that the deaths in northern Israel on Saturday followed an attack on a tent camp near Rafah that left 25 people dead and 50 wounded.
More than 37,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s response to attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel late last year that left 1,200 people dead, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, according to the Associated Press.
