Israel’s military announces start of ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza

Saleh Zenati carries the body of his infant nephew Khalid Zenati, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during his funeral in Gaza on Sunday (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Israel launched “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip while airstrikes in a new offensive killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said, and forced northern Gaza’s main hospital to close.

Airstrikes killed more than 48 people in and around the Palestinian territory’s southern city of Khan Younis, some hitting houses and tents sheltering displaced people, according to Nasser Hospital, which said it struggled to count the dead because of the condition of the bodies.