Gaza airstrike claims over 30 lives

More than 30 Palestinians have been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Medics said that a post office sheltering displaced Palestinian families was hit, as well as nearby houses.

Nuseirat is one of the Gaza Strip’s eight historical refugee camps established in 1948 after the forced expulsion of Palestinians from nearby areas, often called the Nakba or “catastrophe”.

The strike came just hours after US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser raised hopes about a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that would end more than a year of war in the Strip.

Officials at two hospitals in Gaza, al-Awda Hospital in the north and al-Aqsa Hospital in the centre of the territory, said they had received a total of 25 bodies from the strike which hit a multi-storey residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

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Since the shock collapse of Assad's government over the weekend, Israel has moved troops into the buffer zone on the Syrian side of the dividing line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and has conducted hundreds of airstrikes to destroy Syrian army weapons and equipment.

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