Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes on an apartment and a residential building killed 13 people overnight.
Spokesman Mahmud Bassal said in a statement to AFP that Israeli warplanes hit the top floor of a residential building in southwestern Gaza City, killing 10 people.
Bassal said Israeli helicopters also struck an apartment in the west of the city, killing three and wounding several others.
Israeli forces have been preparing for an offensive to seize Gaza City, the largest urban centre in the Palestinian territory, intensifying bombardments in the area in recent days and warning of imminent evacuation.
The UN estimates that nearly a million people live in Gaza City and its surroundings, where famine has been declared.
Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 63,557 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable.
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