Israel kills 76 in a day in Gaza, ramps up Lebanon attacks
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GAZA: (Web Desk) Gaza’s Health Ministry said that Israeli attacks killed 76 Palestinians and wounded 158 in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli raid on a house near Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people.

Seven others were killed and many were injured in the Israeli bombing of a house near al-Jalaa Street in west Gaza City, they said.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 46 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 30 of them in the north.

Amande Bazerolle from Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says its clinic in Gaza City is seeing a “huge increase” in the number of newly displaced people.

A Palestinian woman was injured after Israeli soldiers opened fire on her vehicle in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

Activist Fouad Amor told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli forces at the entrance of al-Litwani village opened fire on a vehicle, which resulted in a woman getting her hand injured.

Israeli forces closed the area and prevented Red Crescent crews and international activists from reaching it.

A drone missile was fired on a group of people near a grocery shop in the Nuseirat refugee camp. It’s an area filled with many street vendors and shops and people were simply on their way to pick up what they need for the day.

Four people, including a woman, a teenage boy and two others were hit by flying shrapnel as they were walking by this street.

What we saw from the ambulances at Al-Aqsa Hospital behind me, as injured people were coming out, they were clearly in areas that are very lethal, very deadly. Either the shrapnel hit them on the back of their head, or in the abdominal area or in the lower part, causing paralysis. People are unable to walk for a long time or sometimes become disabled permanently because of the bombings.

Elsewhere this morning, five people were reported killed in a tent in Khan Younis. In Gaza City, five people were killed, including three children and two women from one family who were sheltering inside a residential home.

The European Union’s outgoing top diplomat Josep Borrell has said he had “no more words” to describe the situation in the Middle East, before chairing his last planned meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers.

“I exhausted the words to explain what’s happening in the Middle East,” Borrell told reporters, barely concealing his frustration at the EU’s failure to weigh on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his five-year mandate.

“There is no more words,” he said. “It’s about 44,000 people killed in Gaza, the whole area is being destroyed, and 70 percent of the people being killed are women or children.”

“The most frequent ages of casualties are children below nine years old,” said the 77-year-old foreign policy chief.