At least 50 Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday, local medics in the enclave said.
The reported deaths, which add to the toll of 53,486 given by the Hamas-run Health Ministry on Monday — a figure deemed largely accurate by the UN, among others — come as Israel pushes on with a amid its ongoing operation to root out the militant group Hamas.
The medics said the sites hit include two homes where women and children were among the dead, and a school housing displaced families.
The information cannot be independently verified.
The escalation in Gaza has provoked criticism from Israel’s allies, with British Prime Minister on Tuesday saying that he, along with the leaders of France and Canada, was horrified by the violence.
He repeated calls for a ceasefire.
Criticism has also come from within Israel itself, with a center-left lawmaker telling Reshet Bet radio on Tuesday that Israel was becoming an “outcast among nations.”
“A sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population,” Yair Golan, a retired general and leader of the opposition Democrats party, said.
Israel began after Hamas and allied militants carried out raids in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which almost 1,200 people were killed, mostly Israeli civilians.
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