Four Israeli soldiers, including an officer from the Multi-Dimensional Unit, were killed during operational activity in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, according to an Israeli army announcement on Tuesday.
More details regarding the death of the Israeli soldiers, between Monday and Tuesday, were not immediately clear, according to the Israeli army statement, but its announcement coincides with the escalation of the Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip.
In another development, medical sources indicated, on Tuesday, that 115 people were killed in raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 109 of them in the north of the Strip.
An Israeli bombing, on Tuesday, on a residential building in the Beit Lahia project, northern Gaza Strip, resulted in the killing of 93 people, and the loss of 40 others whose fate is not yet known, according to sources in the health authorities in the Strip.
Local sources had previously reported that among the dead were more than 17 children.
Residents in the area reported that the targeted building contained “more than 100 displaced persons,” calling for assistance to those trapped under the rubble as quickly as possible.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 43,061, “the majority of whom are children and women” since the start of the Israeli bombing on October 7, 2023, while since the same date the death toll has risen to 101,223, “while thousands of victims are still under the rubble,” according to medical sources in Gaza.