At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday, including two dozen when a residential building in the northern town of Jabalia was hit, Palestinian health officials and a human rights group said.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza said at least 24 people were killed when an Israeli attack destroyed the three-story building in Jabalia at dawn. Thirty other people from nearby homes were injured, PCHR said in a statement.
The Israeli army said it had struck a site in Jabalia where “terrorists were operating”.
In Gaza City on Sunday, an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Sabra neighborhood killed Wael Al-Khour, a Welfare Ministry official, as well as his wife Khour, a son, two daughters and three grandchildren, health officials and relatives. he said.
The Israeli military said it was examining the report.
The three hospitals in and around Jabalia have been under siege by Israeli forces for several weeks and hospital officials have refused army orders to evacuate the facilities or leave patients unattended despite depleting supplies of food, medicine and fuel .
The Israeli military accuses the Palestinian militant group Hamas of exploiting the civilian population and property in Gaza for military purposes, a charge the militant group denies.
Efforts to reach a ceasefire between the two warring sides have so far failed, with Israel and Hamas trading blame.
Qatar, which has been trying to negotiate a ceasefire alongside Egypt and the United States, has told Hamas and Israel that it will its foreign ministry said on Saturday.
There was no official response from Hamas or Israel.
Israel’s main military supporterwithin 30 days – deadline expiring on Wednesday.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at the time that top American officials had “made clear” to the Israeli government that changes were needed “to see that the level of assistance to get to Gaza rises up from the very, very low levels that it has been to date.”
The request came ahead of last week’s vote for President-elect Donald Trump, who suggested giving Israel more free rein.
On Saturday, a United Nations-backed assessment warned that famine was imminent in northern Gaza.
At least 23 people, including seven children, were killed and six others wounded in an Israeli attack in Almat in Lebanon’s Mount Lebanon province, the country’s Health Ministry said on Sunday, adding that the death toll is likely to rise go out.
Three people were killed and two others injured in an Israeli attack in Mashghara, in the western part of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on Saturday evening, while one person was killed and four others injured in an attack in Sahmar, also in the western Bekaa, occurred the same night, added the Ministry of Health.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it is targeting Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
Since late September, Israel has been engaged in a two-front war after turning its attention north to Lebanon.
On Sunday, Israel admitted for the first time that it was behind .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “gave the green light to the paging operation in Lebanon” in which hundreds of devices exploded, killing nearly 40 people and wounding about 3,000, his spokesman said.