According to the civil defence, Israeli army strikes on Sunday killed at least 20 people in Gaza and struck a Hezbollah stronghold close to the international airport in Beirut.
Following nearly a year of cross-border conflicts in addition to its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel has been engaged in combat on two fronts since September, stepping up its attacks on Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The civil defence service reported that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 20 people in the most recent unrest in Gaza, including three children and four women.
Israel promised to prevent the Islamist militants from reassembling in the northern part of the Palestinian territory and started a significant strike on them a year after Hamas’ October 7 attacks on the Gaza region’s south set off the war.
In the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the deadliest attack on Sunday killed ten people, while another hit on a house killed a woman, according to civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal.
Five individuals were murdered by an Israeli drone strike in the southern city of Rafah, Bassal added, while three women and a kid were slain in the Nuseirat camp.
The health ministry of Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, announced on Saturday that 43,799 people had died altogether in the conflict that has lasted more than 13 months.
According to ministry statistics that the UN deems trustworthy, the vast majority of the fatalities were civilians.
According to an AFP count of Israeli official estimates, 1,206 persons were killed in the October 7, 2023, Hamas strike that started the conflict, the majority of whom were civilians.
