Agencies
Gaza Strip
At least 81 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza during the last 24-hour period, according to health officials.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces hit areas in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least nine Palestinians, while Israeli tanks carried out a limited advance further into Rafah in the south.
In one Israeli air strike around midnight on a house in Al-Zawyda in the central Gaza Strip, eight people were killed, the health officials said.
In Rafah, where medics said two people were killed in an airstrike, tanks carried out a raid in the north of the city before pulling back, a tactic Israeli forces have used in other areas before mounting deeper incursions.
At least eight UN-run schools sheltering people in the Gaza Strip have been hit in the past 10 days. In nine months of war, 70 percent of UNRWA facilities have been bombed and 539 people sheltering there killed.
At least 38,794 people have been killed and 89,364 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
