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Over 60 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza Strip

Over 60 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza Strip

Israeli airstrike targeting Hamas military leaders kills civilian refugees in Gaza humanitarian area

Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 60 people, Health officials reported on Tuesday (July 16).

The casualties include those from an attack on a school sheltering displaced individuals and another in an Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone."

Meanwhile, ceasefire talks in the nearly 10-month-old conflict seem to have stalled once again.

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The Red Crescent said on Tuesday, that 17 people were killed in a bombing near a petrol station in Mawasi, an area on the Mediterranean shoreline packed with hundreds of thousands of displaced people that Israel had previously declared an evacuation zone.

While another 16 were killed in a strike that targeted the UN-run al-Awda school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed that Hamas militants were present at the school.

But there was no immediate comment on the strike in Mawasi. However,the army reported that the air force targeted around 40 sites in Gaza on Tuesday, including sniping and observation posts, military structures, and buildings rigged with explosives.

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It is worth mentioning here, over the past two weeks, Israel has hit the Palestinian territory with some of the strongest bombardments in months, the deadliest of which targeted Mohammed Deif, Hamas’s military commander in Mawasi on Saturday that killed more than 90 people.

It is still unclear whether Deif, wanted by Israel for decades, was killed in the strike.

“It had eliminated around half of the Hamas leadership in Gaza and 14,000 soldiers since the war broke out after the Palestinian militant group’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage," saidIDF on Tuesday.

Notably, US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters that two senior advisers to Netanyahu had said Israel was still committed to reaching a ceasefire. He also criticised the “unacceptably high” civilian casualties of the last few days.

(With inputs from agencies)