At least 29 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential block in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Hamas said in a statement.
Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defence, told Xinhua that rescue teams were still searching for survivors and bodies trapped under the rubble.
Palestinian security sources said the strike targeted eight adjacent homes, destroying the entire area with multiple missiles.
The Israeli military has not commented on the incident.
The airstrike came as health authorities in Gaza reported that hospitals had received 36 bodies and 41 injured individuals in the past 24 hours.
According to Gaza-based health officials, the number of Palestinians killed since Israel resumed military operations on March 18 has risen to 1,482, with 3,688 wounded.
In a separate incident in the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed and one injured when Israeli forces struck a residential house in the city of Nuseirat, Basal said.
In the south, an Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis killed an elderly man and a woman, he added.
Gaza’s Civil Defence warned that several victims remain trapped under debris or on the streets, unreachable by emergency teams due to ongoing hostilities.
Since the start of the Israeli military campaign on Oct 7, 2023, a total of 50,846 Palestinians have been killed and 115,729 wounded, according to Gaza health authorities.
