Earlier, an air strike in Gaza killed 20 Palestinians as mediators met in Qatar for talks aimed at agreeing a long-elusive ceasefire deal.
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that it has ordered the evacuation of Gaza City, which was an early target of the war that is now seeing renewed fighting.
A Palestinian man injured in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis A fourth strike early on Wednesday killed four men, three women and a child when it hit a home in Deir al-Balah, an area that is located within the “humanitarian safe zone” where Israel has told Palestinians to seek refuge as it carries out offensives in multiple parts of the Gaza Strip.
Footage aired by Al-Jazeera television showed children playing football in the school’s yard when a sudden boom shook the area, prompting shouts of “a strike, a strike!” Nearly the entire population have been driven from their homes. Many have been displaced multiple times, and hundreds of thousands are packed into sweltering tent camps.
This week, Israeli troops have also been waging a new ground assault in Gaza City in the north of the territory – its latest effort to battle Hamas militants regrouping in areas the army previously said had been largely cleared. In the past nine months, Israeli troops have attacked at least eight hospitals, causing the deaths of patients and medical workers along with massive destruction to facilities and equipment. Israel has claimed Hamas uses hospitals for military purposes, though it has provided only limited evidence.
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