On October 7 last year, Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
In response, Israel launched a large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip with the stated goal of eliminating Hamas.
So far, at least 44,875 people have been killed and more than 100,000 wounded – mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The UN considers these figures to be accurate.
At least 30 of them were killed – and another 50 wounded – on Thursday night in an Israeli strike on a post office sheltering displaced persons in central Gaza, local medics said.
Locals say Gazans displaced by the 14-month conflict have been hiding there and that many members of one extended family have been killed.
The Israeli military said it was targeting a senior member of Islamic Jihad behind attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
He accused the armed group of using Gazan civilians as human shields for its activities.
