Key points
- Over 40 wounded in strike: Gaza’s Civil Defence Agency
- At least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed in recent Israeli strikes
- Efforts to restore ceasefire have so far failed
- Overall Palestinian death toll since start of war has reached 50,846
ISLAMABAD: Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a residential building in the Shujaiya area of Gaza City killed at least 20 people on Wednesday.
AFP cited the agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal as saying the attack resulted in “20 martyrs and more than 40 wounded” and the search for bodies in the rubble was ongoing.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said an Israeli attack hit close to its clinic in the so-called safe zone of al-Mawasi in Gaza, according to Al-Jazeera.
Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Efforts to restore the truce have so far failed, local media reported.
Ceasefire in Gaza
Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed in the new Israeli attacks, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.
Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that it was “necessary to reach a ceasefire” in Gaza, AFP reported.
He said that “communication with the mediators is still ongoing” but that “so far, there are no new proposals”.
Badran said Hamas “is open to all ideas that would lead to a ceasefire and stop the genocide enacted against our Palestinian people”.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that new negotiations were in the works aimed at getting more captives released.
