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Israeli forces kill scores in Gaza, including people in shelter

Israeli forces kill scores in Gaza, including people in a displacement shelter
MENA
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Almost 70 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza Thursday, including several seeking aid and a strike on a school for displaced people

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Gaza's civil defence agency said the number of people killed by Israeli forces on Thursday rose to 69, updating a previous toll of 25.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 69 people were killed by Israeli strikes, artillery or gunfire across the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, including 38 people waiting for humanitarian aid.

Israeli forces also killed 12 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war. Civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP that 12 people, "the majority of them children and women", were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a school-turned-shelter, which the Israeli military did not confirm.

US President Donald Trump earlier this week declared a new ceasefire push, aiming for an initial 60-day truce, which he said had Israel's backing. Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war's end, a source close to the group said on Thursday