Israeli strikes kill 72, hospital in north Gaza comes under attack
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 72 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-time raid on Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the enclave, Palestinian officials said.
The Gaza health ministry said a strike on houses in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least 38, many of them women and children.
The Israeli military said its forces had killed a number of Palestinian gunmen in air and ground strikes in the southern Gaza Strip and dismantled military infrastructure. Some residents of Khan Younis sifted through rubble on Friday in an attempt to retrieve clothes and documents, while children looked for their toys.
Meanwhile, a Hamas official confirmed to international media on Friday that a delegation led by the group’s chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya arrived in Cairo on Thursday for talks with Egyptian officials. The official said Hamas was determined any agreement must end the war in Gaza, get Israeli forces out of the enclave and achieve a prisoners-for-hostages swap deal. US and Israeli negotiators will gather in Doha in the coming days to try to restart talks, officials said on Thursday.
On Hezbollah, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there was an urgent need to get a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, a day after he said Washington did not want to see a protracted campaign in Lebanon by its ally Israel. Further, An Israeli strike killed three journalists in southern Lebanon on Friday.
