Dozens Dead in Israeli Bombardment of Gaza


Dozens Dead in Israeli Bombardment of Gaza

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Israel's military has struck numerous targets in the Gaza Strip after Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, said Israel needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian territory.

By daybreak on Tuesday, a cloud of thick dust from the explosions hung over Gaza City after Israeli forces fired hundreds of flares that turned the night sky bright orange.

At least 30 people were killed in the Israeli assaults from air land and sea, residents said, in the most widespread night of attacks so far. At least 1,110 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have died in the ongoing Israeli offensive.

Eleven people were killed in a strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City as Israeli forces hit targets across the coastal strip, including a government complex.

Israeli aircraft also fired a missile at the house of Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza's senior Hamas leader, before dawn on Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties, Gaza's Interior Ministry said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman had no information on the report but was checking for details.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry said 10 people, including nine children under the age of 12, were killed and 46 wounded in the blast at a park in the Shati refugee camp on the outskirts of Gaza City.

The Israeli military said five soldiers had died in a gun battle with fighters who crossed into Israel via a tunnel near the community of Nahal Oz, close to the border with the Gaza Strip.

Hamas said its forces had infiltrated Israel to retaliate for the killing of children in a beach camp.

The main UN agency in Gaza, UNRWA, said on Monday more than 167,000 displaced Palestinians had taken shelter in its schools and buildings, following the Israeli evacuation warnings.

Shortly afterwards, the cloudy skies over Gaza lit up with flashes as the army began an intensive wave of air strikes and heavy shelling, AFP correspondents and medics said.

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