32 killed in Israeli bombings across Gaza

At least 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the central and northern Gaza Strip since late Monday night, reported Xinhua by Palestinian sources on Tuesday.

Seven Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens more wounded in an Israeli airstrike that struck a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told Xinhua.

In a separate airstrike, 25 Palestinians, including about 10 women and children, were killed late Monday when Israeli forces targeted a residential building housing several families in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Basal added.

Basal noted that the attacks also left dozens injured and many missing, and that the Civil Defense has been unable to operate in northern Gaza for weeks due to an Israeli ban.

A statement from the Hamas-run Gaza government media office on Tuesday said, "This crime coincides with the collapse of the health system in the northern Gaza Strip, rendering it nonfunctional and halting the work of the Civil Defense, which is specialized in saving lives."

The statement urged the international community to restore operations at hospitals and medical centers in Gaza, particularly in the north, and to bring in surgical medical teams, ambulances, and civil defense vehicles.

It also held the Israeli army and the U.S. administration fully responsible for the continuation of the conflict in Gaza.

The Israeli army has yet to comment on the incidents.

Israel has been conducting a large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, in retaliation for a Hamas attack along the southern Israeli border, during which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

As of Tuesday, the Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli strikes in Gaza has reached 44,786, according to Gaza-based health authorities.