Overnight strikes kill at least 50 in Gaza

US says Israel has right to defend itself

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Hamas militants carry a body retrieved from a tunnel in an area north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

(AFP)

Gaza's civil defence agency told AFP yesterday dozens of Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 50 people in the Palestinian territory, hours after US President Donald Trump said "nothing" would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he helped broker.

The agency said 22 children were among those killed, as well as women and elderly, and that around 200 people were wounded.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal described the situation in Gaza as "catastrophic and terrifying", calling the strikes "a clear and flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement".

"The Israeli strikes targeted tents for displaced people, homes, and the vicinity of a hospital in the Strip," he told AFP.