Hamas says 200 killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes on Gaza
Gaza officials said Saturday, and Israel announced the death of five soldiers after the UN failed to call for a ceasefire.
Eleven weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, Israeli forces pressed on with their offensive, a day after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution for more aid to flow into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Grey and black smoke rose over Khan Yunis city and footage showed smoke also drifting over the north of the coastal territory.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported 201 deaths in the past 24 hours across the territory, updating the death toll since the start of the war to 20,258, most of them women and children.
Fighting began on October 7 when Hamas militants broke through Gaza's border and killed about 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. They also took 250 hostages.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel launched a relentless bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza that has displaced nearly two million and reduced much of the territory to rubble.
On Saturday the army said five of its soldiers have been killed in combat, bringing to 144 the total number of troop deaths since the ground offensive on October 27.
The previous day the Security Council approved a resolution demanding «immediate, safe and unhindered» deliveries of life-saving aid to Gaza «at scale», but it did not call for an end to the deadly fighting.
Members had wrangled for days over the wording, and at Washington's insistence toned down some provisions.
It is still unclear what, if any, impact the vote will have on the ground.
But for Palestinians in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, more aid is not enough.
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