Following Hamas' declaration that it needed more time to evaluate a plan that would end its war with Israel in the beleaguered Palestinian enclave, scores of people were reported dead in overnight attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had been killed overnight, including in what the group’s media office said was an Israeli bombardment of a kindergarten in Rafah where displaced people were sheltering.
The attack came as concerns over a potential Israeli ground incursion into the southern border city have mounted in recent days, with hundreds of thousands of displaced seeking refuge from the fighting there in makeshift shelters and encampments.
Many made the journey from even harder-hit areas after being told the city was a safe zone, but strikes have continued there as well, with mourners gathering outside a local hospital Saturday to pray for the dead after another bombardment.
The city that had been home to 200,000 people now hosts more than half of Gaza’s population, the United Nations said.
The war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, has killed at least 27,238 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said early Sunday that at least 92 people had been killed overnight, including in what the group’s media office said was an Israeli bombardment of a kindergarten in Rafah where displaced people were sheltering.
The attack came as concerns over a potential Israeli ground incursion into the southern border city have mounted in recent days, with hundreds of thousands of displaced seeking refuge from the fighting there in makeshift shelters and encampments.
Many made the journey from even harder-hit areas after being told the city was a safe zone, but strikes have continued there as well, with mourners gathering outside a local hospital Saturday to pray for the dead after another bombardment.
The city that had been home to 200,000 people now hosts more than half of Gaza’s population, the United Nations said.
The war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, has killed at least 27,238 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry.
