GAZA — The violence showed no sign of abating Sunday as Israel made
the single deadliest airstrike yet on the Gaza Strip in the weeklong bombing
campaign and the number of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza approached 3,000.
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The Israeli bombing in Gaza City killed at least 33 people,
including 12 women and eight children, and wounded 50 others, according to
Palestinian health authorities. They said the toll was likely to climb as
rescuers picked through the rubble searching for victims and survivors.
Israel’s military acknowledged civilian deaths in the strike.
Israel claimed it struck underground military
infrastructure, “which was located under the road in the relevant area,” an
Israeli spokesperson said. “The underground military facility collapsed,
causing the foundations of the civilian house above to collapse as well,
causing unintentional casualties.”
In a separate strike, the Israeli military said it had
bombed the home of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian group
that controls the
Gaza Strip, in the southern town of Khan Younis. It released
a video of the bombing.
At least 192 people — most of them civilians, including 58
children — have been killed by Israeli planes, drones, and artillery since the
campaign began Monday,
Palestinian officials said.
Israel said it has killed 75 members of Hamas, and accuses
the group of using civilians as human shields. In airstrikes that claimed
civilian casualties, Israel has often described the targets as weapons caches
or militant operations centers.
In Israel, 12 people have been killed by Hamas rockets,
Israeli authorities said.
Israeli forces have hit more than 1,500 targets, causing
serious damage to Hamas infrastructure, including the network of tunnels it
uses to move people and weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other
top officials said at a press briefing after a meeting of the security cabinet.
Far more rockets have been fired at Israel than in any week
of previous conflicts, and some of them have greater range than Hamas’ arsenal
has demonstrated in the past. Israeli officials have admitted to being
surprised by the reach and intensity of the barrage. Hamas, which has had help
from Iran in building increasingly sophisticated rockets, claimed this past
week that some had the range to reach any point in Israel.
Israel has intercepted about 1,100 rockets, military
officials said Sunday.
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