An Israeli attack on a residential area in the north of the Gaza Strip killed 66 people, most of them women and children, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
More than 100 others had been injured, the report said.
WAFA reported that the attack had taken place early on Thursday morning. It said that rescue workers were digging with their bare hands to find the victims, citing medical sources from the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that infrastructure belonging to the Palestinian militant organization Hamas had been struck in the Beit Lahia area. Terrorists who had participated in the October 7 attack on Israel last year had been active there, the IDF said.
The region was an active combat zone, and the local population had been warned in advance, the IDF said. It added that the casualty report was being investigated.
The information could not be independently verified.
Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. Omar Ashtawy Apaimages/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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