The death toll from Israeli strikes on areas near the city of Khan Yunis in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 70, with over 200 people injured, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Iran Press/West Asia: According to the ministry, those wounded were taken to the Nasser Medical Center, some with serious wounds.

According to Al Jazeera, Israel struck emergency workers east of Khan Yunis, causing several injuries. Additionally, Israeli helicopters targeted the al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 240 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip. It launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.

Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The regime has also imposed a "complete siege" on the Gaza Strip, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to 2.3 million Palestinians living there.

About 90 percent of Gazans have been displaced within the territory, where UN agencies say there is no safe place.

Many of the dead are women and children.

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