• Families displaced by conflict took refuge in the facility
• Palestinians mourn, bury victims
CAIRO: An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said on Friday.
Families displaced by the 14-month-old conflict had sought refuge in the postal facility in the Nuseirat camp, and the strike late on Thursday brought the day’s death toll in the enclave to 66, the medics said.
Israel said its target was an Islamic Jihad leader of attacks on Israeli civilians and troops. An Israeli military statement said it was reviewing reports on the number of casualties. It did not identify the Islamic Jihad member by name.
Nuseirat is one of the Gaza Strips eight historic camps originally for Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war around the establishment of Israel. Today, it is part of a dense urban area crowded with displaced people from throughout the enclave.
Earlier on Thursday, two Israeli strikes in southern Gaza killed 13 Palestinians who Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid trucks. Israel’s military said they were Hamas fighters.
