Hamas fitness authority: 107 Palestinians killed in Gaza in 24 hours

The Hamas-managed health authority says 107 Palestinians have been killed inside 24 hours in assaults via the Israeli military within the Gaza Strip.

more than 140 others had been injured during this period, the authority announced on Tuesday.

This brings the number of americans killed within the coastal strip since the delivery of the war on October 7 to at least 27,585. pretty much sixty seven,000 others had been injured.

The figures can't be independently verified.

combating has been specially fierce for weeks in Khan Younis, a metropolis in the south of the coastal strip.

Israel suspects the management of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas stream is sheltering in an underground community of tunnels there. it's also regarded doubtless that hostages are being held there by way of Hamas.

On Monday night, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant introduced that the military would strengthen further into the metropolis of Rafah, which lies on the border with Egypt.

Rafah, where around 200,000 people lived earlier than the war, is currently crowded with greater than 1 million Palestinians who've fled the combating from different elements of the Gaza Strip.

Egypt, with which Israel has signed a peace treaty, is additionally adversarial to an Israeli offensive within the border enviornment. Cairo fears that defense force operations in Rafah could lead on to a rush of determined Palestinians fleeing to the Egyptian peninsula of Sinai, which would be absolutely unacceptable for Egypt.

The battle changed into triggered by means of the worst massacre in Israel's background, performed by militants from Hamas and different extremist Palestinian organizations on October 7 in Israel close the border with the Gaza Strip. more than 1,200 americans have been killed on the Israeli facet.

Palestinians check out broken buildings after the Israeli army launched an attack on residences. Naaman Omar/APA images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa