Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike on Tuesday on a tent camp in a designated humanitarian zone killed at least 19 people.
The Civil Defense, first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government, said the strike left craters up to 10 meters (32 feet) deep. The Israeli military said it used precise munitions against a group of militants.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the toll could rise. The ministry is also part of the Hamas-run government. Its figures are widely seen as generally reliable. Its tallies from previous wars have largely coincided with figures from independent researchers, the U.N. and even the Israeli military.
The Health Ministry says over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began. It does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its count. The war has caused vast destruction and displaced around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often multiple times.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in their Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war. They abducted another 250 and are still holding around 100. Around a third of them are believed to be dead.
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state news agency says an Israeli drone strike in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley killed one person and wounded two others.
Hezbollah later said the dead man as one of its members identifying him as Mohammed Qassem al-Shaer. The Israeli military released video of the strike, adding that al-Shaer was a commander with Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.
Later in the day, Lebanon’s state media said an Israeli airstrike hit a building in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, wounding six people. The airstrike hit the top floor of a four-story building in the city that was targeted several times in the past months.
Legislator Hani Kobeissy, who represents the city, told reporters during a visit to the area that the building is home to civilians, adding that militants have no presence there.
More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since Oct. 8, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians. In northern Israel, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the tense border since the exchange of fire began a day after the Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7.
ANKARA, Turkey — The uncle of the Turkish-American activist killed in the West Bank last week says his niece hid the fact that she was traveling to the Palestinian territories to avoid worrying family members.
In an interview with Turkey’s HaberTurk television Tuesday, Yilmaz Eygi also said that based on information from witnesses, he believes his niece was “deliberately” targeted by Israeli soldiers.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist from Seattle, was killed Friday following a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting.
The Israeli military said Tuesday that Eygi, a volunteer with the activist group International Solidarity Movement, was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces who were aiming at someone else.
