The ongoing Israeli attacks in the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict have killed 39,480 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, health authorities in the besieged Palestinian enclave said on Thursday.
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 35 Palestinians and wounded 55 others, bringing the overall death toll to 39,480 and total injuries to 91,128 since the outbreak of the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on last Oct 7, which has lasted for 300 days, the Hamas-run health authorities said in a statement.
As the Israeli army continues its operations across multiple locations in Gaza, an airstrike targeting a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City killed at least 15 people and injured several others on Thursday, according to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA.
Israeli military operations have also resulted in the deaths of senior officials from Hamas and Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based armed political group.
Early Wednesday morning, the residence of Haniyeh in Tehran was hit in an airstrike after he attended the inauguration of Iran's new president, resulting in the death of Haniyeh as one of Hamas' highest-ranking officials and a bodyguard.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran says Haniyeh was killed by an "air-launched guided projectile" that struck the building. The attack happened just hours after Israel's strike on Beirut, which killed Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned the Israeli attack on southern Beirut as an act of aggression and vowed definite response to the airstrike during his televised address at Shukr's funeral on Thursday.
Nasrallah stated that Israel has crossed red lines, saying that the war with Israel has entered a "new phase".
He emphasized that the only way to prevent further escalation is to pressure Israel to end its aggression on Gaza.
On the same day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is at a very high level of preparation for any scenario, both defensive and offensive. In his address, he mentioned the deaths of Shukr and Mohammed Deif, a Hamas military commander, but did not refer to the killing of Haniyeh.
Israel's National Security Council warned on Thursday that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah might target Israelis or Jewish sites abroad.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 39,480: health authorities
