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Rescue efforts in Beit Lahia are currently hampered due to communications and internet services being severed in the region, Gaza health officials said.<\/p>\n
The Hamas-run government media office said the bombing hit “crowded” residential areas, and that 73 people had been killed – a number also reported by Gaza’s civil defence agency. The BBC cannot independently verify the figures.<\/p>\n
According to Palestinian news agency Wafa, an entire residential complex was destroyed in the strikes. <\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the BBC it had struck a “Hamas terror target” and was “doing everything possible to avoid causing harm to civilians”.<\/p>\n
It said the casualties given by the Hamas office were “exaggerated” and said such sources had “proven to be sorely unreliable in previous incidents.”<\/p>\n
Israel began a renewed military offensive in northern Gaza in early October, saying it is trying to prevent Hamas from regrouping in the area.<\/p>\n
In particular, Israeli forces have surrounded and bombarded the densely-populated Jabalia area, which includes an urban refugee camp – with at least 33 people reported killed in a strike late on Friday.<\/p>\n
Humanitarian groups have warned that virtually no aid has entered the area in the past few weeks. Israel’s own statistics show that aid deliveries to Gaza as a whole have collapsed when compared with the same period in September.<\/p>\n
The UN’s top humanitarian official, Joyce Msuya, said on Saturday that Palestinians in northern Gaza are enduring “unspeakable horrors” and called for these “atrocities” to stop.<\/p>\n
An Israeli minister, Amichai Chikli, told the BBC Israel had “blockaded” parts of northern Gaza.<\/p>\n
“We allowed the civilian population to escape into the safe zone, and we prevented supplies to enter the blockade region,” he told the Newshour programme – referring to the IDF having warned people in the north to evacuate.<\/p>\n
He insisted this was “legal according to the international law”.<\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly denied it is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza but the US has told it to boost access or risk having some American military assistance cut off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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