Israel bombs Gaza as talks on hostage release continue

AT least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip yesterday as ceasefire talks continued.

- By Eleanor Burleigh

Among them were at least 15 people — including eight children — who died outside a clinic where they were queuing for nutritional supplements, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah.

The Israeli military insisted it had killed a Hamas terrorist and that it regretted any harm caused to civilians.

Project Hope, the aid group that runs the clinic, said the attack violated international law.