Gaza’s Hamas-run health authorities say Israeli fire across the enclave killed at least 53 people today, most of them in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have advanced through the outer suburbs and are now a few miles from the city center.
Residents say Israeli strikes targeted Gaza City’s Zeitoun, Sabra, Tuffah, and Shejaia districts from the ground and air. Tanks pushed into the eastern part of the Sheikh Radwan district northwest of the city center, destroying houses and causing fires in tent encampments.
In the Tuffah neighborhood, medics say five houses were damaged by heavy Israeli strikes that killed eight people and wounded dozens of others.
There was no immediate Israeli comment on those reports. The Israeli military has said it is operating on the outskirts of the city to dismantle terrorists’ tunnels and locate weapons.
Israel says it does not deliberately target civilians and notes that Hamas makes widespread use of civilian infrastructure in addition to its vast network of tunnels under Gaza.
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