At least 54 Palestinians were killed early on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes on tents housing displaced people in several areas of Gaza, including Beit Lahiya, Deir Al-Balah and the town of Al-Zawayda, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
According to WAFA, 20 people were killed in a heavy airstrike on a home in Beit Lahiya, located in the northern part of Gaza, two people were killed when a tent in central Deir al-Balah was hit and four people were killed and others injured in a similar attack on a tent in Al-Zawayda.
In Lebanon, where Israeli strikes have continued across the country's south and east, the health ministry says just over 3,000 people have been killed during 13 months of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. At least 13,492 have been injured.
Most of the civilian deaths have happened since the conflict dramatically escalated on 23 September with intense Israeli airstrikes on south and east Lebanon as well as Beirut’s southern suburbs. Over a thousand of the casualties are Hezbollah fighters.
Border clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah continue, as the Israeli military has struggled for weeks to push deeper into southern Lebanon. Ceasefire talks between Tel Aviv and Beirut being mediated by Washington have failed to make any progress.