Extract from ABC News
Palestinians were forced to flee during an Israeli military operation in Beit Lahiya last month. (Reuters)
In short:
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 33 Palestinians in the Gaza strip on Wednesday, according to local authorities.
Gaza's civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike on a house in Beit Lahiya killed at least 22 people.
The Israeli military said it was checking the report.
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 33 Palestinians in the Gaza strip on Wednesday, most of them in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, according to a combined toll of figures from medics and the enclave's civil defence agency.
The latter said an Israeli air strike on a house in Beit Lahiya killed at least 22 people, including women and children.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA said at least 30 people were living in the multi-storey building before it was hit, adding that several members of the family were still missing as rescue operations continued through the morning.
The Israeli military said it was checking the report.
In a separate incident, medics said at least seven Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central part of Gaza earlier on Wednesday.
A house at the Nuseirat refugee camp was hit by an Israeli strike earlier this month. (Reuters: Ramadan Abed)
Strikes hit Gaza City and the town of Beit Hanoun, authorities say
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said another two people were killed by an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City.
In the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza's north, where the Israeli forces have operated since October, medics said an Israeli air strike killed and wounded several people.
Rescue workers said several people were trapped under the rubble of a house.
In a statement, the Israeli military said two rockets were fired from the central Gaza Strip into Israel, but fell in open areas and caused no injuries.
The statement also referenced the ability of Gaza militants to continue to stage rocket attacks despite 14 months of Israeli aerial and military offensives.
Israeli forces have been operating in Beit Hanoun, the nearby town of Beit Lahiya, and the Jabalia refugee camp, fighting Hamas militants waging attacks from those areas and preventing them from regrouping.
Palestinian officials and residents accuse Israel of depopulating the two towns and refugee camp on the northern edge of the enclave to create a buffer zone, something Israel has denied.
An Israeli air strike on Beit Lahiya last month left a residential building in ruins. (Reuters)
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