Hamas-run Gaza authorities claim 44 killed today in Israeli attacks

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says Israeli attacks have killed 44 people today, including 23 in an attack on a home in the Strip’s center.

“Forty-four people have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip,” civil defense official Mohammad Al-Mughayyir tells AFP. “Twenty-three people were killed, others injured and several [are] missing following an Israeli strike on the Qreinawi family’s home east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.”

Hamas-given death tolls cannot be verified and routinely do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on and immediately after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attak on Israel. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.

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