GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL

At least 48 Palestinians were killed Tuesday in renewed Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, according to medics.​​​​​​​

The Health Ministry and Civil Defense in Gaza said in separate statements that the Israeli bombardment killed 34 Palestinians -- six inside the European Hospital and 28 in an adjacent house belonging to the al-Afghani family -- as a result of fire belts that targeted the hospital and its surroundings.

The Israeli army acknowledged striking the hospital, claiming it targeted members of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas.

The army killed a Palestinian man and his wife with a strike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced residents in western Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to a medical source.

The source said three family members lost their lives in Israeli shelling of a tent sheltering displaced civilians in the northern town of Beit Lahia.

Three more people were killed when Israeli forces bombed the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City. A fourth Palestinian died of his wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli strike in the same neighborhood.

Another civilian was killed and two others were injured in a drone strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, medics said. One more Palestinian was injured in a similar strike in the Bureij refugee camp.

Two more people were killed, including a journalist, in Israeli bombardment of the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, a medical source said.

Gaza’s Interior Ministry also said that a police commander was killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis at dawn.

Another Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike in the western part of the same city, a medical source said.

The Israeli artillery shelled the Al-Tuffah and Shejaiya neighborhoods of eastern Gaza City amid intense gunfire from military vehicles, according to witnesses.

Meanwhile, the army continued its systematic home demolitions in eastern Gaza City and Rafah in southern Gaza, witnesses said.

More than 52,900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.​​​​​​​

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.