Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight and early Monday have killed at least 70 people, Hamas officials said, as the military said it had hit some 320 targets in the Palestinian enclave in 24 hours.
In a statement, the Hamas-controlled government media office in the blockaded Gaza Strip said that “more than 60 were martyred in the Israeli raids” during the night including 17 who were killed in a single strike that struck a house in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.
At least 10 other people on Monday morning were killed in new strikes, the media office said in a separate statement, getting to overall toll since Sunday night to at least 70 casualties.
The Israeli military said on Monday that it had hit “over 320 military targets in the Gaza Strip” over the past 24 hours.
The army said in a statement, “The terror targets struck included tunnels containing Hamas terrorists, dozens of operational command centers… and Islamic Jihad terrorists, military compounds, and observation posts.”
For more than two weeks, Israel has hit the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory with air strikes, following a cross-border invasion launched by the armed group on October 7.
The attack has left at least 1,400 people dead in Israel, according to official figures.
The bombing campaign has killed more than 4,650 Palestinians, mostly civilians including at least 1,873 children, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Between 200 and 300 people have been killed each day in the blockaded territory, according to government tolls.
Amid the campaign, tens of thousands of Israeli armies are gathered along the enclave’s borders for a widely anticipated ground attack.
The military said on Sunday that one trooper was killed and three others seriously injured during a tank operation inside Gaza.
Israel has cautioned more than one million residents in northern Gaza to move south for their safety, and the United Nations says more than half of the territory’s 2.4-million population is now displaced.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are thought to stay in and around Gaza City in the north, unwilling or unfit to leave.
