
At least 45 Palestinians were killed and a Red Cross office was damaged in Gaza as Israeli forces pounded the besieged territory and engaged in close-quarter combat with Hamas, Reuters reported.
The Red Cross said that its Gaza office was damaged when “heavy calibre projectiles” fired by the Israeli military landed in Mawasi near Rafah on Friday afternoon, killing at least 25 people living in tents around the compound and wounding 50.