Gaza rescuers say 82 killed in Israeli strikes since midnight

 Gaza's civil defence agency said on Friday that 82 people had been killed in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory since midnight. 

"The number of martyrs killed in Israeli shelling targeting civilian homes in the northern Gaza Strip between midnight and early this morning has risen to 50... Our teams are still working in those areas," civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP. 

Israeli tanks near the Israel-Gaza border on May 15. Reuters

A doctor at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia, who requested anonymity, told AFP that 30 dead and dozens of wounded, mostly children and women, had arrived at the hospital. 

Mohammed Saleh, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, told AFP that the hospital had received five dead and "more than 75 injured" as a result of the bombardment. 

Demonstrators protest against the US and Israel and in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in Cairo, on May 15. Reuters

"The Israeli occupation bombed the house next to mine, hitting it directly while its residents were inside," Yousef Al-Sultan, 40, from the al-Salatin area, west of Beit Lahia, told AFP, reporting "air strikes, artillery shelling and gunfire from quadcopter drones." 

"There is a massive wave of displacement among civilians. Fear and panic grip us in the middle of the night," he said.

Agence France-Presse