Tel Aviv, 17 November 2024 (dpa/MIA) – Almost 100 people have been killed in new Israeli strikes in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-controlled press office said on Sunday.

An Israeli bomb hit a five-storey residential block in the city of Beit Lahia, killing 72 people, it said. The building housed families displaced from their homes in other parts of the Gaza Strip. Many women and children were reported among the victims.

A further 24 people were killed and several injured in Israeli airstrikes on the al-Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the centre of the Gaza Strip, the press office said.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that rescue workers were looking for bodies and survivors in the rubble.

The Hamas-controlled health authority in the Gaza Strip reported that 47 Palestinians had died in fighting in the area over the past 24 hours, raising the number killed since the start of the war in October last year to 43,846. The figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

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