Thousands of Palestinian civilians trudged in a forlorn procession out of the north of Gaza on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
The exodus took place in a four-hour window of opportunity announced by Israel, which has told residents to evacuate the north encircled by its armoured forces or risk being trapped in the violence.
But the central and southern parts of the small, besieged Palestinian enclave also came under fire again as the war between its Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel entered its second month.
Palestinian health officials said an air strike that hit houses in the Nusseirat refugee camp killed 18 people on Wednesday morning. In Khan Younis, six people, including a young girl, were killed in an air strike.
"We were sitting in peace when all of a sudden an F16 air strike landed on a house and blew it up, the entire block, three houses next to each other," said a witness, Mohammed Abu Daqa.
"Civilians, all of them civilians. An old woman, an old man and there are others still missing under the rubble."
Gaza City, the Hamas militant group's main bastion in the territory, is surrounded by Israeli forces. The military said troops have advanced to the heart of the city, while Hamas says its fighters have inflicted heavy losses.
Israel struck at Gaza in response to a cross-border Hamas raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7 in which gunmen killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Palestinian officials said 10,569 people have been killed, 40% of them children. The level of death and suffering is "hard to fathom", U.N. health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said in Geneva.
Negotiations mediated by Qatar, where several Hamas political leaders are based, are trying to secure the release of 10-15 hostages in exchange for a one- to two-day humanitarian pause in Gaza, a source briefed on the talks said on Wednesday.
Israeli military says destroyed tunnel shaft near UNRWA school
The military posted a video of the attack on X, saying it had targeted the tunnel in Beit Hanoun in northeastern Gaza.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has repeatedly condemned attacks near its facilities and rejected accusations that its installations are used by Hamas.
UNRWA’s Gaza director also has said that 50 UN facilities have been damaged by Israeli attacks as of November 4, including five direct hits.
At the time, he said the agency was no longer to provide shelter to hundreds of thousands of displaced people under the UN flag.
At least 89 UNRWA staff have been killed in Gaza since the fighting began in what officials have described as one of the highest death tolls of UN staff in the history of the organisation.
Israel’s military said earlier that it had destroyed 130 tunnel entrances in Gaza.
UN chief says Israeli operations ‘clearly wrong’
The head of the UN said Wednesday that thousands of children in the Gaza Strip were killed, which he said shows that there is “something clearly wrong in the way that military operations are being done.”
“Every year, the highest number of killing of children by any of the actors in all the conflicts that we witness is the maximum in the hundreds,” Antonio Guterres said in an interview with Reuters Next in New York.
“We have in a few days in Gaza, thousands of children killed,” he said.
Guterres stressed the need for a humanitarian cease-fire as well as allowing the release of hostages, and allowing for the “massive entrance” of aid into Gaza.
Stressing the need to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinians, Guterres said: “If we don't make that distinction, I think it's humanity itself that loses meaning.”
Describing the situation in Gaza as “terrible” and “catastrophic,” the UN chief noted that the entrance of fuel into Gaza has not yet been authorized, and water is “very limited” while there is a lack of medicine in hospitals.
“It's essential that the laws of war are respected,” he said. “And one of the things we say to Israel clearly it is very important that the laws of war are fully respected.”
Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.
At least 10,569 Palestinians, including 4,324 children and 2,823 women, have been killed.
The Israeli death toll nears 1,600, according to official figures.
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