At least 30 people were killed Sunday in Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip, local emergency services said, as the army continued its offensive against Hamas in the north of the besieged Palestinian enclave.

“Israeli airstrikes” left at least 17 dead in northern Gaza, civil protection agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal told AFP. The deadliest hit was “six dead, including women and children” at a home of the Wars Agha family in Beit Lahia, in the far north, he said.

In Jabalia, a few kilometers to the south, “an Israeli rocket targeted a house of the Al-Najjar family, the toll is four dead and three wounded,” he added.

Hamas’ health ministry said 13 Palestinians were killed in the southern Gaza Strip during several raids. In one of them nine people were killed, including four children, east of Khan Yunis.

The Israeli army “continues its shelling,” Basal said, confirming that houses housing civilians are being shelled “without warning.” Also, “the ground attack continues in the northern part which is under complete siege”.

Since October 6, the northern part of the Gaza Strip has been the scene of heavy shelling and clashes between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters who, according to Israel, are regrouping in the area.

Basal estimates that “more than 100,000 residents of the northern part of the enclave are without food, without medicine. They urgently need resources for their survival, but we cannot provide any help,” he said, explaining that civil protection groups no longer have vehicles to carry the wounded or equipment to search the ruins.

Mohammad Salha, director of Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, described the “horrific” situation in northern Gaza in a statement. He said the hospital has a surgeon, the only one in northern Gaza, even though “more than 70% of the victims admitted to the hospital require surgery.”

– Positive dialogue between the Palestinian factions in Cairo –

At the same time, a senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, told Al Aqsa TV, the Palestinian militant group’s television network, that the dialogue taking place between Palestinian factions in Cairo was “positive”, adding, however, that he did not want to rush it. to draw conclusions.

Hamdan also said that Hamas had not received any new written proposals regarding a possible ceasefire in Gaza, where the group has been fighting Israeli forces for more than a year.