The agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strike resulted in “20 martyrs and more than 40 injured” and the search for bodies in the rubble was ongoing.
Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Efforts to restore the truce have so far failed.
The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed in the renewed Israeli operations, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.
An October 2023 attack by Hamas that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a tally based on Israeli official figures.
Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said on Tuesday that it was “necessary to reach a ceasefire” in Gaza.
He added that “communication with the mediators is still ongoing” but that “so far, there are no new proposals”.
Badran said Hamas “is open to all ideas that would lead to a ceasefire and stop the genocide enacted against our Palestinian people”.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that new negotiations were in the works aimed at getting more hostages released from captivity in Gaza.
Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s attack on Israel, 58 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. (AFP)
