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At least 39 people were killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza on Saturday, leaving rescue workers attempting to find survivors beneath the rubble, according to Palestinian and hospital officials. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments.
Issued on: 23/06/2024 – 09:33
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Palestinians carry a person killed by Israeli bombardment to their burial in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 21, 2024.
Palestinians carry a person killed by Israeli bombardment to their burial in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 21, 2024. © Jehad Alshrafi, AP
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At least 39 people were killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza on Saturday, leaving rescue workers attempting to find survivors beneath the rubble, according to Palestinian and hospital officials
An aerial drone likely launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck and damaged a vessel in the Red Sea on Sunday, officials said, in the latest attack by the group targeting the vital maritime corridor.
At least 37,551 Palestinians have been killed and 85,991 injured in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, with about 120 remaining in Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.
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Israel and the powerful Iran-backed group, a Hamas ally, have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7.
Hezbollah’s announcement came hours after it published a video excerpt purporting to show locations in Israel along with their coordinates, amid heightening fears of an all-out conflict between the two foes.
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Israeli forces tie wounded Palestinian to jeep in West Bank raid
Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian man to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said Sunday, admitting that soldiers had violated operational procedures.
Footage of the incident, which occurred on Saturday, has gone viral and shows a Jenin resident strapped horizontally to the bonnet of a military jeep as it passes through a narrow alley.
Medics identified the Palestinian as Mujahid Fayyad from the Jabriyat neighbourhood located between the town of Burqin and Jenin.
The military said the Palestinian was wounded during a “counterterrorism operation” launched in the area of Wadi Burqin to apprehend wanted suspects.
During an exchange of fire between troops and militants, one of the suspects was wounded and apprehended, the military said in a statement.
“In violation of orders and standard operating procedures, the suspect was taken by the forces while tied on top of a vehicle,” the statement said.
“The conduct of the forces in the video of the incident does not conform to the values of the IDF (military),” it added.
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At least 39 people killed in Israeli strikes across northern Gaza, officials say
At least 39 people were killed by Israeli strikes across northern Gaza on Saturday, as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors beneath the rubble, according to Palestinian and hospital officials.
Fadel Naem, director of the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, told The Associated Press that more than three dozen bodies arrived at the hospital.
The Palestinian Civil Defence, an emergency group active in Gaza, said its emergency workers were digging for survivors at the site of a strike in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City and that it had pulled several dozen bodies from a building hit by an Israeli strike in an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City.
Israel said Saturday that its fighter jets struck two Hamas military sites in the Gaza City area but did not elaborate further.
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Aerial drone likely launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels hits ship in the Red Sea
An aerial drone likely launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck and damaged a vessel in the Red Sea on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack by the group targeting the vital maritime corridor.
The attack comes as the US has sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back home after an eight-month deployment that saw it lead the American response to the Houthi assaults.
Those attacks have seen shipping drastically drop through the route crucial to Asian, Middle East and European markets in a campaign the Houthis say will continue as long as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages on.
The drone attack happened around dawn off the coast of the rebel-held port city of Hodeida, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said. It said the vessel sustained damage but its mariners on board “were reported safe”. It did not elaborate on the extent of the damage, but said an investigation was ongoing.
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Yesterday’s key developments:
Israeli strikes on Gaza City districts in the north of the Palestinian enclave on Saturday killed at least 24 people and wounded several others, according to health authorities in Gaza. The IDF said it struck two Hamas infrastructure sites in Gaza City.
An Israeli national was found shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank Saturday morning, Israel’s army said, as violence surges in the occupied territory.
A commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden saw explosions near the vessel, authorities said Saturday, likely the latest attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels attempting to target the shipping lane.
Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians outside Gaza’s southern city of Rafah late Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and Reuters)
