Israeli strikes hit Gaza market, killing eight

Israeli strikes hit a market in Gaza's Beit Lahiya killing eight people and wounding several others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Video showed bodies at the site of the attack as well as several injured people lying on the ground bleeding, some being attended to by medics and transported on a donkey cart.

Casualties were taken to medical points in Beit Lahiya and the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia.

Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with new bombardments that killed at least 30 people, Palestinian medics said, a day after one of the deadliest single strikes of the year-old war killed scores in the north of the enclave.

The Israeli military assault that has laid waste to the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of people shows no signs of slowing as Israel wages a new war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and its backer the United States tries after a year of failed attempts to broker ceasefires for both.

Northern Gaza, where Israel said in January it had dismantled militant group Hamas' command structure, is currently the focus of the military's assault. It sent tanks into Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia earlier this month to flush out Hamas fighters who it said had regrouped in the area.

The assault in the north, in addition to new rules introduced by Israel and a halt to most private food deliveries, has also choked aid and food supplies to their lowest level since the beginning of the war.

Israel says it has continued food deliveries into Gaza and blames the United Nations for failing to feed Gazans.

Officials in Beit Lahiya issued a statement urging world powers and aid agencies to halt Israel's attacks and bring in basic medical supplies, fuel and food, saying the latest military actions had left the area "without food, without water, without hospitals, without doctors."