Oct. 29 (UPI) -- At least 50 people were killed in Gaza, including more than two dozen children, in a wave of Israeli strikes in retaliation for the killing of an Israel Defense Forces soldier operating in an area of Rafah on the Israeli side of the so-called Yellow cease-fire line.
The Israeli strikes across Gaza on Tuesday night hit targets in Rafah and Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City and Beit Lahia in the north, as well as Bureij and Nuseirat in the center of the strip.
The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that following five Israeli strikes in the area 13 children and two women were among 20 bodies brought to the facility while in the central city of Deir al-Balah, the Aqsa Hospital said that following two Israeli airstrikes overnight it had received 10 bodies, including six children and three women.
The Al-Awda Hospital, also in central Gaza, said it received 30 bodies, 14 of them children.
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