Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip have killed dozens of people, Palestinian medics say, hours after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.
Two strikes on Thursday killed 15 people who were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid convoys, medics said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that Hamas members aimed to hijack the aid convoy “in support of continuing terrorist activity”. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that those killed in the two air strikes were guarding the aid trucks.
Gunmen have repeatedly hijacked aid trucks after they roll into the enclave, and Hamas has formed a task force to confront them. Hamas-led forces have killed more than two dozen members of the gangs in recent months, Hamas sources and medics said.
The Nasser Medical Complex in the southern city of Khan Younis said eight people were killed in a strike near the southern border town of Rafah and seven others were killed in a separate strike near Khan Younis.
(Aljazeera)
