
About 26 Palestinians, mostly children, were killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza early this morning, Reuters quoted Palestinian news agency WAFA as saying.
It comes amid widespread warnings from the Israeli government for people in the city to leave, with reports of leaflets being released urging evacuation.
" We're asking people to move. I know it's not easy for a lot of them, but we don't want to see civilians caught in the crossfire, " Mark Regev, an aide to the Israeli prime minister, told MSNBC yesterday. Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces say they have killed "a number of terrorists" in the West Bank in joint overnight operations with intelligence services.
" In a joint overnight IDF and ISA counter-terrorism operation at Camp Balata, an IDF aircraft struck a hideout used by terrorists involved in planning imminent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and military targets," it said in a statement . statement.
The camp is located in the city of Nablus, in the central West Bank, about 50 km north of Jerusalem.
The IDF added that one of the dead was Muhammad Zahed, whom it called a "prominent terrorist", but their claims could not be verified./SkyNews
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