DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli attacks on residential areas in the southern Gaza Strip killed 38 people on Friday, including 13 children from the same extended family, Palestinian health authorities said.

In northern Gaza, health authorities reported that Israeli forces had raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the few remaining functioning medical facilities in the area. Israel has renewed its Offensive against Hamas in the north in recent weeks, and aid groups are Sound the alarm about the terrible humanitarian conditions.

In Lebanon, Israel is attacking the southeast of the country killed three journalists He works for news outlets linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its patron saint, Iran.

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Khan Younis

The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that Israeli airstrikes and shelling hit the southern city of Khan Younis, killing 38 people and wounding dozens.

The Israeli military said its troops were dismantling militant infrastructure and killing Hamas militants in the southern city. It said the Gaza Health Ministry's figures “do not match the information it has” but did not provide its own estimate of the number of casualties.

Palestinians said the neighborhood was hit without warning.

Palestinian Civil Defense footage showed rescuers pulling the bloodied bodies of nine children from the al-Farra family from the ruins.

The victims were taken to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and to the European Hospital, where records show at least 15 members of the al-Farra family were killed. Six members of the Abdeen family were also killed, health officials reported.

Saleh al-Farra, who lost his 17-year-old brother and 15-year-old sister in the attack, said the shock from the bombing had caused his family members to run to the center of the house for shelter. The next thing he knew, he said, he was waking up in the rubble of his former home.

“I started screaming and screaming until my brother and father came and tried to pull me out,” he said. “I didn’t know anything about anyone.”

Medical organization Doctors Without Borders said one of its employees – identified as 41-year-old Hassan Sobh, a father of seven who had worked for the charity for five years – was killed in the attack. It said Sobh was the eighth worker killed in last year's Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli forces are intensifying their operations around the hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip

In response to reports that it had stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the Israeli military said only that it was “operating in the area of ​​the hospital,” based on intelligence indicating the presence of militants and militant infrastructure.

The children's hospital is one of three medical facilities in the region that is somewhat operational after more than a year of war. Since the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of hospitals as part of its renewed attack on Hamas militants in northern Gaza, doctors have warned that severe shortages of food and medical supplies have created a humanitarian emergency.

The Gaza-based Health Ministry reported that Israeli troops on Friday rounded up medical workers and displaced people seeking shelter at the hospital and forced the men to strip, a common practice that Israel says is intended to ensure that detainees do not have weapons hide. The ministry said some Palestinians had been arrested, without specifying the number.

The Palestinian Civil Defense said Israeli forces had arrested two of its employees, including a local rescue coordinator and a firefighter. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the arrests.

The World Health Organization said Friday that it had lost contact with staff at Kamal Adwan, where some had been the night before to deliver supplies and help transfer patients to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City . Israel's military agency COGAT, which oversees aid distribution in Gaza, said it facilitated the U.N. health agency's efforts in delivering aid and fuel to Kamal Adwan and evacuating patients.

“This development is deeply worrying given the number of patients receiving care there and the people seeking shelter there,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on the social media platform X about the loss of communication on Friday.

The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, could not be reached on Friday. In voice messages sent late Thursday, Abu Safiya described catastrophic conditions.

“Patients are still lying on the floor in the reception and emergency area, many of them in a critical condition. There are no resources, supplies or specialists to save the lives of these children,” said Abu Safiya. “We appeal to the world to intervene.”

Gaza's Health Ministry said two children who were on life support in the intensive care unit died after the hospital's generator failed and Israeli fire hit the oxygen tanks. It said Israeli soldiers conducted searches at the hospital, causing panic and chaos in the complex with about 600 patients, medics and displaced people.

Hundreds of thousands of people were stranded with little food or supplies as Israeli troops approached the northern town of Jabaliya, according to the United Nations. U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said Friday that Israeli military actions in the north “risk the area being displaced by all Palestinians.”

Hospitals in Gaza have been attacked since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and dragged another 250 back to Gaza. Kamal Adwan was besieged and attacked by Israeli forces a year ago.

The Israeli military accuses Hamas fighters of using hospitals and tunnels underneath as bases. Hamas and Palestinian doctors have disputed this claim.

According to the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health, over 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Gaza's health ministry did not say how many were combatants, but said more than half of those killed were women and children.

The Israeli military said Friday that three more soldiers were killed in Gaza this week, without giving details. This brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to 359.

Three journalists are killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon

A rare Israeli airstrike in southeast Lebanon hit one Residence where journalists stayed On Friday, the building was razed to the ground and three media workers sleeping there were killed. Thick dust kicked up by the bombed cars marked “PRESS” parked in front of the ruins of the guesthouse.

Al-Manar TV, operated by Hezbollah, and Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, a channel linked to the militant group, said its employees were among those killed.

The Israeli army said it was aware of reports that the three journalists were killed in the airstrike, which it said hit a Hezbollah military structure. “The incident is currently under review,” she added, without elaborating.

Lebanon's health minister said on Friday that 11 journalists have been killed and eight injured since Israel and the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group began trading cross-border fire in October 2023.

According to the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom, at least two people were killed by shrapnel in a rocket fire from Lebanon in northern Israel on Friday. The rockets landed in Majd Al-Krum, an Arab city in the north of the country, hitting a gymnasium. Rescue workers said six other people were injured, including an 80-year-old man who remains in serious condition.

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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press journalists Mohammed Zaatari in Hasbaya, Lebanon, and Adam Schreck in Jerusalem contributed reporting.