Overnight Israeli strikes have killed at least 34 people and wounded 25 across Gaza, according to an update from local officials.
In the southern city of Rafah, 26 people were killed, including children and babies, when airstrikes targeted a residential area and hit 11 houses, according to the Civil Defence Directorate in Gaza.
“Our teams in Rafah are still dealing with multiple targeting of residential and uninhabited homes, resulting in dozens of deaths, injured, and others missing under the rubble,” it said.
On Monday, Israel’s military urged residents in eastern Rafah to “evacuate immediately,” a day after the country’s defense minister told troops in Gaza to expect “intense action” in the city “in the near future.”
In Gaza City, two people were killed and five wounded after an airstrike hit an apartment building near the Samar intersection in the center of the city. The victims were sent to al-Ahli Baptist hospital, according to medical officials.
In Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, six people were killed and 20 wounded in an airstrike on a UN agency school in Nuseirat, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital told CNN.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) complex.
The military struck what it called a “Hamas command and control center” located in an UNRWA complex in central Gaza, it said in a statement.
“As a result of the strike, the Hamas’ command and control center located in the UNRWA complex is no longer operational,” it said.
The death toll has been updated in this post.
