Israeli Strikes Kill 20 Palestinians in Gaza, Medics Say

29 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Beit Lahia: A Palestinian inspects the Abu Nasr family home after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. (Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpa)
29 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Beit Lahia: A Palestinian inspects the Abu Nasr family home after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. (Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpa)
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Israeli Strikes Kill 20 Palestinians in Gaza, Medics Say

29 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Beit Lahia: A Palestinian inspects the Abu Nasr family home after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. (Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpa)
29 October 2024, Palestinian Territories, Beit Lahia: A Palestinian inspects the Abu Nasr family home after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. (Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpa)

A series of Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 20 people on Wednesday, medics said.

Eight people were killed in a strike in the Salateen area of Beit Lahia in the north, close to where the Gaza health ministry said at least 93 were killed or missing in an Israeli airstrike that struck a multi-floor house on Tuesday.

The United States called that attack "horrifying".

There was no immediate Israeli comment on either strike.

Gaza's emergency service said its operations had come to a halt because of the more than three-week Israeli assault into northern Gaza. Israel says its campaign is to destroy Palestinian armed group Hamas, whose fighters had regrouped to the area in the year-long war.

The Israeli army sent tanks into Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic camps and the focus of the new military offensive.

Meanwhile, Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians earlier on Wednesday, medics said. In Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, an Israeli strike killed five people and wounded others near a clinic, medics and residents said.

Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel killed 1,200 people and more than 250 hostages were captured and taken into Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

The death toll from Israel's retaliatory air and ground onslaught in Gaza has exceeded 43,000, the Gaza health ministry says.



Death Toll in Lebanon Crosses 3,000 in 13-Month Israel-Hezbollah War, Health Ministry Says

A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
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Death Toll in Lebanon Crosses 3,000 in 13-Month Israel-Hezbollah War, Health Ministry Says

A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Lebanon during 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's Health Ministry said Monday. At least 13,492 have been injured.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas’ surprise attack into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 ignited the war in Gaza. Hezbollah and Hamas are both allied with Iran.

The conflict dramatically escalated on Sept. 23 with intense Israeli airstrikes on south and east Lebanon as well as Beirut’s southern suburbs, leaving hundreds dead and leading to the displacement of nearly 1.2 million people.

Israel began a ground invasion of south Lebanon on Oct. 1, causing wide destruction in border villages but making little advances on the ground inside Lebanon.

In Israel, 72 people have been killed from Hezbollah attacks, including 30 soldiers.