By Abdel Raouf Arnaout and Betul Yilmaz
JERUSALEM / ISTANBUL (AA) - Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on 45 targets across the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, the military said on Wednesday.
“Israeli army forces continued its ground operation in the Gaza Strip as warplanes struck more than 45 targets across the strip in the last 24 hours,” army spokesman Avichay Adraee said on his X account.
The spokesman claimed that Israeli forces destroyed tunnel openings and infrastructure in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood and along the Morag Axis in Rafah in southern Gaza.
The army also alleged that its forces had eliminated “gunmen” and destroyed a stockpile of combat equipment in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City.
Palestinian medical sources, however, said that the attacks targeted homes, shelters, and displacement camps, killing dozens of people.
The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed nearly 1,500 victims, injured 3,700 others, and shattered a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave that was signed in January.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed last week to escalate attacks on Gaza as efforts are underway to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.
More than 50,800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.