Fierce battles in Gaza after Jordan attack kills 3 U.S. troops
The Hindu
Deadly fighting and airstrikes in Gaza escalate fears of a wider regional conflict, with casualties and humanitarian crisis worsening.
Deadly fighting and air strikes rocked besieged Gaza on January 29, a day after an attack that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan heightened fears of a wider regional conflict.
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip killed 140 people overnight, including 20 members of one family, said the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
The Israeli Army, in its war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack, said its troops had "encountered and killed dozens of armed terrorists in battles in central Gaza".
Ground forces backed by tanks have focused combat operations on the coastal strip's main southern city of Khan Younis, the hometown of Hamas's Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar.
The almost four-month-old war was sparked by the Hamas attack which resulted in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, in southern Israel, according to an AFP tally of official figures.
Militants of Hamas, considered a "terrorist" group by the United States and European Union, also seized 250 hostages, of whom Israel says around 132 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 28 dead captives.
Israel's relentless military offensive has since killed at least 26,422 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according to the territory's Health Ministry.
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