50 reportedly killed in latest Israeli strikes in Gaza

BBC:

At least 50 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes in south and central parts of Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

One of the deadliest attacks occurred in the recently designated humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi, west of the southern city of Khan Younis.

Another strike hit a UN-run school housing displaced people in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.

The Israeli military said both strikes had targeted members of Palestinian armed groups and that it was looking into reports of civilian casualties.

It also claimed that half of the leadership of Hamas’s military wing had been killed and approximately 14,000 “terrorists” killed or detained during nine months of Israeli air strikes and ground operations in Gaza.

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

More than 38,710 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s health ministry. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it had reportedly identified 14,680 children, women and elderly people among the dead by the end of April.