Medics say an Israeli drone strike killed Ahmed al-Kahlout, head of the Intensive Care Unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital.At least 42 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to medical sources.
Twenty-four people were killed in Israeli strikes on central Gaza’s Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight longstanding refugee camps, sources told Al Jazeera on Friday.
An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians in a house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said.
Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the enclave, medics added.
The Israeli military on Thursday said its forces were continuing to “strike terror targets as part of the operational activity in the Gaza Strip”.
Israeli tanks had entered northern and western areas of Nuseirat on Thursday.
Some tanks withdrew from northern areas on Friday but remained active in western parts of the camp, the Reuters news agency reported.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said teams were unable to respond to distress calls from residents trapped in their homes.
Dozens of displaced Palestinians returned on Friday to areas where the army had retreated to check on damage to their homes. Medics and relatives covered up dead bodies, including of women, that la …