Military steps up Gaza City takeover campaign as high-rise towers targeted and residents ordered to leave
Israeli strikes killed at least 40 people in Gaza on Sunday, including 19 women and children, as well as five people in Lebanon.
At least 14 people were killed in a single strike on a residential block in southern Gaza City, health officials at al-Shifa hospital said. Another attack killed at least eight Palestinians in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to al-Awda hospital.
Israel also carried out a drone strike in Lebanon, killing five people including three children and their father, in the southern city of Bint Jbeil. Lebanon’s president, Joseph Aoun, denounced the strike, which he said violated the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Despite the signing of a ceasefire last November, Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on Lebanon, more than 4,500 in total, according to the Lebanese army. The Lebanese government said Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire were undermining its own efforts to disarm Hezbollah.
