34 left dead in Israeli air strike

AFP | Gaza City

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Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike killed at least 34 people including children yesterday, with dozens more feared buried under the rubble in the Palestinian territory’s north. The Israeli military told AFP its forces had conducted overnight strikes on targets in the Beit Lahia area, sending Palestinians fleeing, according to AFPTV footage. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 34 bodies had been pulled from the rubble of the bombarded five-storey residential building in Beit Lahia, “including children and women”, revising an earlier toll of 30 dead.

Seven people were wounded, he said. AFP images showed men covered in dust scrambling to reach people under the rubble.