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  • February 8, 2025
40 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes – Firstpost

40 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes – Firstpost

The head of the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza was killed in an airstrike on Friday. It is one of three functional hospitals on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip

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At least forty Palestinians were killed on Friday after Israel launched a nighttime attack on the Gaza Strip.

Medics in Gaza said Israeli tanks withdrew from the region after the attack. So far, 19 bodies have been recovered from the camp, which is one of the enclave’s eight long-standing refugee bases.

Another strike at a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza killed 10 people, health workers said.

Others were killed in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, medics added. There was no new statement from the Israeli military on Friday, but on Thursday it said its forces “continued to attack terrorist targets as part of operational activities in the Gaza Strip.”

The Israeli tanks, which were deployed in the northern and western areas of Nuseirat on Thursday, later withdrew from the area, but the army remained active there.

The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said teams were unable to respond to emergency calls from residents trapped in their homes.

Dozens of Palestinians returned to areas where the army had withdrawn on Friday to check damage to their homes.

The head of the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza was killed in an airstrike on Friday. It is one of three functional hospitals on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army would remain stationed in Gaza for years to come, a minister said on Friday. “I think we will stay in Gaza for a long time. I think most people understand that (Israel) will be in a kind of situation in the West Bank for years where you go in and out and maybe stay along the Netzarim (corridor),” said Avi Dichter, Israel’s Minister of Food Security.

The Israeli army’s long-term presence in Gaza will ensure that Hamas’s new recruits are thwarted and that food and aid transfers in the region will be streamlined, Dichter said.

With input from Reuters