"Israel on Saturday carried out its heaviest airstrikes in Gaza in weeks, killing at least 32 people, Palestinian health officials said. Violence has persisted in the Palestinian territory despite a US-brokered ceasefire entering its second phase earlier this month. Both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have accused each other of violating the fragile truce agreement. A series of strikes hit locations across Gaza on Saturday, including a Hamas-run police station, apartments in Gaza City."
"The Israeli military said in a statement that the strikes were in response to a breach of the ceasefire on Friday when eight Palestinians were detected exiting a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. It said forces "struck four commanders and additional terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organisations across the Gaza Strip." Hamas called Saturday's strikes "a brutal crime.""
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 32 people, most of them women and children, in the heaviest strikes in weeks. Attacks hit a Hamas-run police station, residential apartments and a tent camp in Khan Younis, prompting civil defence to describe the impact as a humanitarian catastrophe. Palestinian health officials reported the rising toll, updating an earlier count of 28. Israel said the strikes responded to a ceasefire breach involving Palestinians exiting a Rafah tunnel and said forces struck Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders. Both sides have accused the other of violating the US-brokered ceasefire as Rafah was set to partially reopen.
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