Israeli strikes kill at least 33 people in northern Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Israeli strikes in northern Gaza killed at least 33 people on Sunday, according to Palestinian officials.
The Gaza Health Ministry's emergency service said that 11 women and two children were among those killed in strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya.
A further 11 people died after an attack on a school-turned-shelter in the Shati refugee camp.
The Israeli military said it carried out a precise strike on militants in a structure in Beit Lahiya, while taking steps to avoid harming civilians. It did not immediately comment on the Shati refugee camp strike.
Daily strikes are still being carried out in Gaza by Israel, as it also wages an air and ground war with the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.
It comes after Israeli warplanes attacked military targets in Iran, which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah. Iranian ballistic missiles were fired into Israel earlier this month.
On Sunday, Iran's Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, stopped short of calling for retaliation, but said the country's authorities would "determine how to convey the power and will of the Iranian people to the Israeli regime".
In a separate incident, a truck rammed into a bus stop in Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring more than 30, according to Israel's emergency services (MDA).
Israeli police said the assailant involved in the truck ramming of a bus was an Arab citizen of Israel
The development is being treated as a deliberate attack and occurred on a road near the headquarters of Israel's Mossad spy agency.
Israeli police said a preliminary investigation indicated "that a bus stopped near a bus stop to drop off passengers. At the same time, a truck arrived and collided with the bus and passengers at the station."
Police added that civilians at the scene "shot at the truck driver and neutralised him".
Aid groups have warned of a catastrophic situation in northern Gaza, which was the first target of Israel's ground offensive and had already suffered the heaviest destruction of the war.
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Israel has severely limited the entry of basic humanitarian aid in recent weeks, and the three remaining hospitals in the north - one of which was raided over the weekend - say they have been overwhelmed by waves of wounded people.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that ongoing Israeli evacuation orders and restrictions on the entry of essential supplies to the north had left the civilian population in "horrific circumstances".
"Many civilians are currently unable to move, trapped by fighting, destruction or physical constraint and now lack access to even basic medical care," it said.
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