Israel kills 23 in northern Gaza

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Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the small enclave.

Medics said eight people had been killed in a series of airstrikes in Beit Lahiya while four were killed elsewhere in Gaza City. An Israeli airstrike later killed two people and wounded others in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight refugee camps, in the coastal enclave's north, medics said.

Another air attack, on Al-Falah School sheltering displaced families in Gaza City's Zeitoun suburb, killed six people and wounded many, medics said, while in Rafah in the far south, three women were killed by Israeli drone fire, they added.