At least 74 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health officials and witnesses said, quoted by the Associated Press, BTA reported.
Thirty people died when an Israeli plane hit a seaside cafe in Gaza City. Dozens of people were wounded, many of them critically, said Fares Awad, the head of emergency services in the northern Gaza Strip.
Ali Abu Atteila, an eyewitness who was in the Al-Baqa cafe at the time of the strike, said the plane bombed the establishment without warning and the impact was felt like an earthquake.
The shooting killed 13 people returning from a distribution center of the US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Ten people were shot dead at a UN aid warehouse in northern Gaza, medics said.
The Israeli military said it had taken multiple steps to notify civilians of operations targeting military command and control centers of the Islamist movement "Hamas" in the northern part of the Palestinian territory.