55 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

At least 55 Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said.

It added that many victims were believed to still be trapped under the rubble.

Many of those killed in the strike were women and children, WAFA reported, citing medics.

There was no immediate Israeli comment.

The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said around 100,000 people were marooned in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun without medical or food supplies. The emergency service said its operations had come to a halt because of the three-week Israeli assault into northern Gaza, where Israel had said it wiped out Hamas combat forces earlier in the year-long war.

Israel said the raid was aimed to prevent Hamas from regrouping.

Video released by Hamas is said to show an attack by the group on an Israeli tank in Jabalia.

Israeli tanks thrust deeper into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what the military said were operations to root out regrouping Hamas militants.

The Israeli military said soldiers captured around 100 suspected Hamas militants in a raid into Kamal Adwan hospital in the Jabalia camp. Hamas and medics have denied any militant presence at the hospital.

Israeli Iron Dome defense system intercepted over a 100 Hezbollah projectiles that were fired from Lebanon.

White trails of smoke could be seen in the sky above the Israeli-Lebanese border as rockets flew overhead.

An Israeli army spokesperson announcement said that approximately 115 projectiles fired by Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel today. At least five more rocket barrages have been fired into northern Israel since.