Dozens killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza districts

Health officials in the Gaza Strip said Israeli air strikes killed at least 24 people in the north of the territory on Saturday, a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in an attack that damaged its office.

At least 120 people have been killed in the attacks on Gaza City in the last 48 hours, the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Saturday.

Dr. Mahmud Aliwa of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said 24 bodies had been brought to his facility following the attacks that left smoke rising over the city.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza Strip’s Civil Defense Authority, told AFP that at least 20 people were killed in an attack on a house in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, while an attack in the Al-Shati refugee camp claimed four more lives.

“People were going about their business” when suddenly “the whole area was wiped out by an air strike,” said Abu Mahmud al-Kariri, an eyewitness in Al-Shati.

Against a grey backdrop of destruction, men used a donkey cart to carry away some of the dead in Al-Tuffah.

Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli military said its fighter jets had attacked “two Hamas military infrastructure facilities” in the Gaza City area.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Saturday called for an “independent investigation” into the attack that damaged the ICRC office.

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