Israeli forces have unleashed a new wave of attacks on Gaza , striking areas near some of the few hospitals still functioning, while their ground assault on Gaza City leaves a mounting civilian toll.

At least 83 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday, medical officials told Al Jazeera.

Missiles struck areas around al-Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals, disrupting some of the last fragile lifelines left for the starving, sick and wounded. At least 15 people were killed outside al-Shifa, while four more died in a separate attack near al-Ahli.

Hamas condemned the assaults as a “full-fledged war crime”, noting they came “less than 24 hours after the release of a new UN report documenting the occupation’s commission of the crime of genocide against our people”.

The group said the

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