GAZA/UNITED NATIONS/JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH/DOHA/DAMASCUS - At least 50 Palestinians were killed in Israeli army attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, said the civil defense in Gaza.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for civil defense in Gaza, told Xinhua that 12 Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling that targeted tents housing displaced persons in several areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Basal said that six people were killed when Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp. He added that a man and his wife were killed in an airstrike that targeted their tent in the al-Sawarha area, west of al-Nuseirat, in central Gaza.

Seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential house in the al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City. Seven others were killed in Israeli artillery shelling of the al-Saftawi area, north of the city, according to Basal.

He added that two women were killed when Israeli helicopters targeted a warehouse housing displaced persons in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment and a gathering of Palestinians in the al-Jalaa and al-Zeitoun neighborhoods, he said.

Eight people were killed near aid distribution centers at the Netzarim and Khan Younis junctions in central and southern Gaza, according to Basal.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on these incidents.

Since Israel resumed its intensified military campaign on March 18, at least 10,975 Palestinians have been killed and 46,588 injured, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 to 62,819, with a total of 158,629 people injured, according to data released by health authorities in Gaza on Tuesday.

Also on Tuesday, health authorities warned that hospital blood banks in Gaza are suffering from a severe and critical shortage of blood units and blood components.

Meanwhile, three people died of famine and malnutrition in Gaza in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll of hunger to 303, including 117 children, the health authorities said Tuesday.  

36,200 displacements 

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Gaza since Aug 14, when the Israeli military offensive on Gaza City was announced, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded more than 36,200 displacements between Aug 14 and 25, including over 11,600 from the north to the south of the strip. Of these, more than 2,000 were recorded between Sunday and Monday alone.

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Strike on Nasser Hospital

Israel's army said Tuesday that the deadly double strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital targeted a camera allegedly installed by Hamas, according to findings from an initial inquiry.

The double strike on Monday killed at least 20 people, including five journalists and several health workers, according to Gaza health authorities. The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis has been the last partially functional medical facility in southern Gaza, as Israel's 22-month offensive has repeatedly struck hospitals across the enclave, leaving all of them either destroyed or partially damaged.

In a statement, the military said that Golani Brigade troops identified the camera as positioned by Hamas in order "to observe the activity of IDF (Israel Defense Forces) troops" and to direct militant activities against them.

Israeli army withdraws from Ramallah

The Israeli army withdrew from the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday following a large-scale raid on Tuesday morning, according to Palestinian sources.

Palestinian security forces said that heavy Israeli forces stormed central Ramallah, raiding several shops and money exchange companies.

Local sources reported that several Palestinians were arrested during raids on money exchange shops in Ramallah and al-Bireh.

Mass protests

Israelis took to the streets on Tuesday, blocking highways, burning tires and rallying outside ministers' homes to demand a ceasefire in Gaza that would secure the release of hostages still held in the enclave.

The "National Day of Struggle" was organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of the captives. The group urged the public to step up pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers to advance truce talks. However, far-right members of Netanyahu's coalition have threatened to resign if Israel agrees to a ceasefire.

The protests came as leaders said plans for an offensive to "conquer" Gaza City were moving forward, describing it as necessary to defeat Hamas. The planned offensive, which the army has already begun in its initial stages, involves mass displacement and the destruction of the enclave's main urban center, already stricken by famine.

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Qatar: Israel should respond to ceasefire proposal

Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed bin Mohammed Al Ansari said Tuesday that Israel should respond to a Gaza ceasefire proposal that is already on the table.

"It is time for Israel to give a serious answer to what it has already agreed to in the past," Al Ansari said in a media briefing, referring to the latest proposal that Qatar said was similar to the one that Israel had earlier agreed to.

Al Ansari added that "what matters is not the location" for the talks, as reports alleged that Israel was talking with Egypt over where to restart the negotiations with Hamas.

Meanwhile, in a statement released by the foreign ministry, Qatar strongly condemned the Israeli forces' bombing of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, describing it as "a new episode in the ongoing series of heinous crimes" committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and a blatant violation of international law. 

Syrian soldiers killed

An Israeli drone strike targeted a Syrian military position in the southern countryside of Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers and wounding several others, according to local and monitoring group reports.

Syria's Lebanon-based Sham TV television reported that three Syrian military personnel were killed and four others injured when an Israeli drone strike hit a military site in the town of al-Kiswah, southwest of Damascus.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a slightly different account, saying two military personnel from the 44th Division, including a commander, were killed, and six others wounded, two of them critically.