Predawn Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed "around 100" people on Monday, the territory`s Hamas-run health ministry said in a statement.
The statement revised upward the ministry`s earlier toll of 52 people killed in the strikes on the city along the Egyptian border.
About 40 airstrikes on the Rafah area in the early hours of Monday were conducted by the Israeli army, with intensive ground shelling, it said.
The Israeli army said in a statement that it conducted "a series of strikes on terror targets" in southern Gaza on Monday, but did not provide other details.
The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 28,176 since Oct. 7, 2023, with 67,784 others being injured, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, about half of the residents there have fled to Rafah, adjacent to Egypt, in search of safety.
The border city, which receives food and medicine aid from foreign countries and UN agencies through the Rafah crossing, is crowded with tents on empty agricultural lands, in schools and along roadsides.
-20241222061719.jpg)
-20241220124406.jpg)
-20241217065341.jpg)
-20241217074542.jpg)
-20241215122332.jpg)
