Dozens of Palestinians are reported to have been killed in the latest Israeli strikes in north Gaza. The UN agency UNRWA tells us civilians are suffering in the camp, and unable to get out. We also hear from the Israeli Defence Forces. Also in the programme: Cuba goes dark as its main power plant fails; and we hear from undecided voters in the US. (Picture: Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, at Beach refugee camp in Gaza City October 19, 2024. Credit: Reuters)
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It's more than a week since Israeli Defense Forces, the idf, started operations inside the sprawling Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Now airstrikes and artillery fire are reported to have killed dozens of people there.
There are also reports that 11 people were killed in an attack on a single house in the smaller, very crowded Al Mekazi camp in central Gaza.
Both are run by the UN Agency unrwa.
We'll hear from its Gaza director shortly.
But first, our correspondent Jonah Fisher is in Jerusale.
What more can he tell us about the attack on Jabalia?
From what we were told by the Hamas run health authorities yesterday evening, there was either shelling or some sort of strike on some residential buildings.
33 people are, according to their reporting, dead, 21 of them women.
And they say that possibly as many as 50 people are dead with 85 people injured.
@ the same time, some pretty gruesome footage has emerged on social media of one of the local hospitals with more than a dozen bodies on the floor wrapped in either shrouds or in blankets.