At least 120 people have been killed during Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip since Thursday night, according to Palestinian reports on Friday.
Palestinian doctors told dpa that about 25 people were killed in northern Gaza, and another 20 died in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central region.
Defense sources also reported the death of 75 people in Beit Lahia, a city in northern Gaza. The statistics do not distinguish between combatants and civilians and cannot be independently verified.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), when contacted, said it needed the exact coordinates of the attack sites to comment further. Such information is not readily available due to widespread destruction.
The conflict in Gaza began on October 7 last year when attackers from the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and other extremist groups based in Gaza carried out massacres in southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 250 others.
At least 44,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, according to health authorities controlled by Hamas.
A West Bank gunman wounded four IDF soldiers
In the West Bank, a gunman opened fire on a bus at the Gitti Avisar junction near an Israeli settlement, slightly wounding four IDF soldiers and causing damage, the military said.
The IDF said it “eliminated the terrorists at the scene,” while the Hamas military wing said the attacker was a member of Hamas. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah reported the death of a Palestinian man.
The Palestinians have been attacking Israel and the West Bank for some time. At the same time, there has been a sharp increase in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Palestinians wait at a checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, after Israeli forces closed all checkpoints following the shooting of an Israeli bus at the Jewish settlement of Ariel, injuring several Jewish settlers. Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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