Israeli strikes on northern Gaza killed at least 22 people, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as Israel stepped up its offensive and aid groups decried a humanitarian catastrophe.
Most of the victims were women and children, Palestinian health officials said.
Israel said it targeted militants.
In a separate development, a truck rammed into a bus stop near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, in what police believe was a terror attack, according to media reports. More than 30 people were injured in the incident, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.
The attack occurred near the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad spy agency and in an area with several intelligence units of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to reports.
Meanwhile, an Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia killed several people and wounded others on Sunday morning, Palestinian medics said. Medics said the attack damaged several houses in Jabalia, the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, which has been the focus of an Israeli military offensive for more than three weeks.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell have called on international leaders to take action to end “the human tragedy” taking place in northern Gaza.
A “catastrophic level of killing, destruction and starvation” afflicts the people in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s military offensive continues, Borrell said Saturday.
Iran’s supreme leader, meanwhile, said Israeli strikes over the weekend on Iranian sites “should not be exaggerated nor downplayed,” while stopping short of calling for retaliation. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “it is up to the authorities to determine how to convey the power and will of the Iranian people to the Israeli regime and to take actions that serve the interests of this nation and country.”
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