GAZA STRIP: A pair of Israeli strikes in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis early on Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33.
The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a US-brokered ceasefire took effect.
Four Israeli airstrikes on tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis late on Wednesday and early on Thursday killed 17 people, including five women and five children.
In Gaza City, two airstrikes on a building killed 16 people, including seven children and three women, according to officials at the Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern part of the city where the bodies were taken.
Hamas condemned the Israeli strikes as a “shocking massacre.” In a statement, Hamas denied firing toward Israeli troops as claimed by the Israeli army.
At Nasser Hospital, scores of people gathered to offer funeral prayers for those who were killed. Women wailed in mourning over the bodies of loved ones wrapped in white burial shrouds.
Among the mourners was Abir Abu Moustapha, who lost her three children and her husband in an Israeli strike that hit their tent. She squatted beside their bodies as they were prepared for burial.
Israeli airstrikes on tents kill 33 in Gaza
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Israeli airstrikes on tents kill 33 in Gaza
- Israel’s military confirmed the strikes but said it was not aware of casualties
- Nasser Hospital officials said a fifth Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in Abassan town
Helicopter crashes in Libya during medical evacuation, killing 3
- The Matan Al-Sarra air base lies in an area under the control of Libya’s Benghazi-based eastern administration led by military strongman Khalifa Haftar, but authorities in the east did not comment on the crash
TRIPOLI: A helicopter has crashed in southeastern Libya, killing a medic and two crew members carrying out a medical evacuation, state media said Tuesday.
Libyan news agency LANA said the chopper went down overnight near an air base in the Kufra region about 60 kilometers north of the border between Libya and Chad.
The aircraft was attempting to evacuate a soldier who had been involved in a road accident in the desert, LANA said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known and it was unclear what happened to the injured soldier.
Libyan media reports said two foreign nationals were among those on board who were killed, but this was not confirmed by authorities.
The Matan Al-Sarra air base lies in an area under the control of Libya’s Benghazi-based eastern administration led by military strongman Khalifa Haftar, but authorities in the east did not comment on the crash.
Libya remains split between the eastern administration and a UN-backed government in the west led by Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah. The LANA news agency is under the control of western authorities.
Libya has struggled to recover from chaos that erupted following a 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled and killed longtime ruler Muammar Qaddafi.
