People walk at the remains of a market after an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jun 30, 2024.
A Palestinian man holds his children as he walks next to buildings destroyed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jun 30, 2024. Hamas said that, in Rafah, its militants lured an Israeli force into a booby-trapped house in the east of the city and then blew it up, causing casualties. The war began when Hamas-led fighters burst into southern Israel on Oct 7, killed 1,200 people and took around 250 hostages, including civilians and soldiers, back into Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Israeli authorities released 54 Palestinians it had detained during the war, Palestinian border officials said. Israel said Hamas had been using the hospital for military purposes. The military has released the hospital's CCTV footage from Oct 7 showing gunmen and hostages on the premises and has taken journalists into a tunnel found at the complex.