dpa
Tel Aviv/Beirut
Israeli attacks onresidential areas in the north of the Gaza Strip killed 88 people, most of them women and children, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
More than 100 others had been injured, the report said.
WAFA reported that the attacks targeted Beit Lahiya and the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood on Thursday. It said that rescue workers were digging with their bare hands to find the victims, citing medical sources from the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that infrastructure belonging to the Palestinian organization Hamas had been struck in the Beit Lahia area. Terrorists who had participated in the October 7 attack on Israel last year had been active there, the IDF said.
The region was an active combat zone, and the local population had been warned in advance, the IDF said. It added that the casualty report was being investigated.
Meanwhile, At least 22 people were killed on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes in different parts of Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said.
The highest fatalities were reported in the eastern town of Nabha where the ministry said at least eight were killed in a strike.
Elsewhere in Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, were the focus of 12 airstrikes on Thursday, according to the state news agency NNA. No casualties were reported.
