Jordan accuses Israel of war crimes as 65 people killed in attacks on northern Gaza

Health authorities said about 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in attacks in the north of the enclave this month

Wounded Palestinians receive treatment at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia. AFP

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At least 65 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential area in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia and Jabalia this weekend in what witnesses called a “massacre”.

In Beit Lahia, 35 people were killed and 80 injured after the Abu Shadaq, Al Masri and Salman family homes were targeted, the official news agency Wafa reported, quoting local sources. On Sunday in Jabalia, 20 people were killed in attacks.

About 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel intensified its military offensive in the north at the start of this month. Gaza's civil defence agency said thousands of people remain trapped under the rubble, without any hope for rescue as access to the area has been blocked and rescue infrastructure destroyed. The last remaining emergency vehicle accessible in the north was damaged by Israeli forces.

Beit Lahia's only partially functioning hospital, Kamal Adwan, was unable to attend to the casualties after Israeli forces surrounded the building, beginning a siege that resulted in patients dying as medicine and food were cut off.

Palestinians search for survivors inside a destroyed building, hit in an overnight Israeli air strike, in Beit Lahia. AFP

During the siege, World Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 44 men working at the hospital were detained, leaving only the female staff, the hospital director and one doctor to take care of about 200 patients inside the centre, including children in intensive care.

Jordan condemned the Israeli attack on Beit Lahia on Sunday, accusing Israel of committing war crimes against Palestinians.

Foreign Ministry spokesman ambassador Sufyan Qudah said Israel was breaching rules of international and humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.

On Sunday, an Israeli air strike on a home killed and wounded several people in northern Gaza's besieged Jabalia refugee camp. Jabalia has been completely cut off from the rest of the enclave – with no aid entering the area since October 1. Two people were also killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza's central Nuseirat area.

Later in the day, at least eight people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a school that was doubling as a shelter for displaced people in Al Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city. Israel later announced that at least one soldier was killed in Gaza.

More than 42,800 Palestinians were killed, and more than 100,000 people were wounded since Israel began its bombardment of the strip on October 7 last year.

Talks to bring about a ceasefire resumed in Doha on Sunday after months of deadlock. Egypt said it had proposed a two-day ceasefire which would entail an exchange of four Israeli hostages for some Palestinian prisoners.

Speaking alongside Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune during a press conference in Cairo, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said that talks should resume within 10 days of introducing the temporary ceasefire to reach a permanent one.