Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 22 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Sunday.
The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said that 11 women and two children were among the 22 killed in the strikes on several homes and buildings in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
It said a further 15 people were wounded and that the death toll could rise. It listed the names of those killed, who mostly came from three families.
The Israeli military said it carried out a precise strike on militants in a structure in Beit Lahiya and took steps to avoid harming civilians. It disputed what it said were “numbers published by the media,” without elaborating or providing evidence for its account.
In a separate development, a truck rammed into a bus stop near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, wounding 35 people, according to first responders.
Israeli police described it as an attack and said the assailant was an Arab citizen of Israel.
The ramming occurred near the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
The rescue service released footage of a large truck with a mostly empty bed that appeared to have slammed into a bus.
In addition to being near the Mossad headquarters, the bus stop is also close to a central highway junction, and the incident came as Israelis were returning to work after a weeklong holiday.
