(3 Jan 2025)
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Southern Israel, looking onto Gaza Strip – 3 January 2025
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1. Smoke column rising above Gaza skyline as seen from southern Israel
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Smoke could be seen rising above the Gaza skyline on Friday as Israel continued its military operation in the enclave.
It comes as at least 30 people, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes overnight and into Friday morning, said hospital staff, as air sirens sounded across Israel and stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume.
Staff at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital said more than a dozen women and children were killed in strikes that hit various places in Central Gaza, including Nuseirat, Zawaida, Maghazi and Deir al-Balah.
Dozens of people were also killed across the enclave the previous day, bringing the total of people killed in the past 24 hours to 56.
The Israeli army did not comment on the latest strikes.
However, in a statement Friday, it said during the past day it had struck dozens of Hamas gathering points and command and control centres throughout Gaza, areas where Hamas had planned and executed attacks.
The army said measures were taken to mitigate civilian harm, such as using precise munitions and aerial surveillance.
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas-led militants’ October 7, 2023 attack into Israel. The militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250.
Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive in retaliation has killed over 45,500 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which says women and children make up more than half the dead.
The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.
Israel’s military says it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because its fighters operate in dense residential areas. The army says it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, many of them multiple times.
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