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Israeli air strikes have killed at least 56 Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip, a local hospital says.<\/p>\n

The strikes reportedly hit homes and tents sheltering displaced families in the city of Khan Younis overnight. <\/p>\n

Local journalists said the corridors of Nasser hospital were crowded with casualties, who included women and children, and that its mortuary was full.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

But it has been intensifying its bombing of what it has said are Hamas fighters and infrastructure ahead of a planned expansion of its ground offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, new Israeli evacuation orders have caused panic among residents of a crowded area of Gaza City, in the north.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said a hospital, and a university and several schools sheltering displaced people in the Rimal neighbourhood had become “terrorist strongholds” and that it would soon attack them with “intense force”.<\/p>\n

Separately, a US-backed organisation said it would start work in Gaza within two weeks as part of a new heavily criticised US-Israeli aid distribution plan.<\/p>\n

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had asked Israel to let the UN and others resume deliveries until it was set up.<\/p>\n

Israel has not allowed any aid or other supplies into Gaza for 10 weeks, and aid agencies have warned of mass starvation among the 2.1 million population.<\/p>\n

Israel imposed the blockade on 2 March and resumed its offensive against Hamas two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire. It said it wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release its remaining 58 hostages, up to 23 of whom are believed to be alive.<\/p>\n

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

At least 52,928 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 2,799 since the Israeli offensive resumed, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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