At least 60 killed in overnight airstrikes on Gaza, medics say

At least 60 people have been killed overnight in airstrikes on Gaza, Palestinians medics have said.

In a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, multiple strikes hit Gaza.

An Associated Press cameraman in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, counted 10 airstrikes overnight into Thursday.

They also saw numerous bodies being taken into the morgue at the Nasser Hospital. A number of body bags contained the remains of multiple people.

The Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza, was also damaged by airstrikes, the official group of the hospital said.

The updated figure comes after the hospital's morgue this morning said 54 people had been killed. A journalist working for a Qatari television network is among them. In a post on social media, Al Araby TV said Hasan Samour had been killed along with 11 members of his family.

The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes.

The bombings came as Donald Trump is on a visit to the Middle East, which includes stops in numerous countries but not Israel.

There had been hopes Mr Trump's trip could usher in a ceasefire deal or a renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to push ahead with a promised escalation of force in the Gaza Strip, to pursue his aim of destroying Hamas.

But international group Human Rights Watch said Israel's stated plan to seize Gaza and displace hundreds of thousands more people "inches closer to extermination".

On Wednesday, airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza killed at least 70 people, including at least 22 children, a local hospital said.

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Amid the strikes, the United Nations' top humanitarian official briefed the Security Council earlier this week, warning they must "act now" to "prevent genocide", a claim Israel vehemently denied.

An aid blockade has been in place since March and left the population at a critical risk of famine, according to the World Health Organisation.

Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, accused Israel of "deliberately and unashamedly" imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians by blocking aid from entering Gaza.

The war began when Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in the 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel.

Israel's response has killed nearly 53,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. Its records do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Since Israel broke a ceasefire on 18 March, almost 3,000 people have been killed, the ministry said.

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