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Gaza death toll rise of more than 100 shows no let-up in Israeli offensive

Story by Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem  • 2hrs ago

Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock© Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock

The Gaza Strip is facing some of the deadliest fighting to date in the present war as Israel expands its offensive just days after the UN security council passed a resolution calling for more aid and urgent steps for a sustainable ceasefire.

More than 100 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes late on Sunday in the centre of the besieged Palestinian territory, including at least 70 in bombings that hit a residential block in the Maghazi refugee camp near Deir al-Balah, health officials in the Hamas-run area said.

Deir al-Balah was also hit overnight despite previously being identified by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) as an “evacuation zone” for Palestinians fleeing the fighting.

The Palestinian Red Crescent published footage from al-Aqsa Martyrs’ hospital, in Deir al-Balah, showing a dazed and bloodied girl covered in dust being checked for injuries. There were also dozens of white body bags.

At the scene of the attack on Maghazi, people screamed and shouted in the dark as they tried to dig for survivors from the rubble.

“We were all targeted,” Ahmad Turkomani, who lost several family members, including his daughter and grandson, told the Associated Press. “There is no safe place in Gaza anyway.”

The Israeli military said it was reviewing the Maghazi incident.

The latest casualties came after an announcement from the Gaza health ministry that Israeli airstrikes had killed 166 Palestinians in 24 hours, one of the single deadliest days of the 12-week-old conflict.

More than 20,400 Palestinians have been killed since Israel declared war in response to the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, in which militants killed 1,140 people and seized another 240 as hostages.

For Israel, the war has also exacted what Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday a “very heavy cost” – 15 Israeli soldiers have been killed in intense ground skirmishes with Hamas since Friday, bringing the total to 156 combat losses.

Despite Friday’s UN security council resolution calling for urgent action from all parties to work towards a ceasefire, fighting on the ground has only intensified since the collapse of a seven-day truce at the start of December.

Israel has expanded its operations into the southern half of the 365-sq-km strip, raising fears for the territory’s 2.3 million residents, almost all of whom have already sought shelter south of the Gaza River after being told by the Israeli army it would be safer there.

Over the weekend Israel’s military chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, said his forces had largely achieved operational control in the north of Gaza, and would broaden its offensive further into the south, but residents still present in Gaza City and the north’s Jabalia camp said the fighting had worsened.

Details emerged on Monday of a ceasefire proposal put forward by Egypt, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas.

The three-stage plan would entail an initial cessation of hostilities of at least a week and the release of all remaining Israeli civilian hostages held in Gaza; then a week in which female soldiers would be released in return for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; and finally a month-long negotiation period for release of male soldiers in exchange for Israeli withdrawal.

Israel’s security cabinet was expected to discuss the Egyptian proposal on Monday. Hamas has so far rejected all initiatives that do not involve a complete ceasefire.

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