Israeli forces kill 38 people in Khan Younis, storm north Gaza hospital, say medics

CAIRO/GAZA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Israeli military strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis have killed at least 38 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-time raid on a hospital in the north of the enclave, Palestinian officials said.

The Gaza health ministry said many of the casualties from the Israeli strikes on houses in southeast Khan Younis were women and children.

The Israeli military said its forces had killed a number of Palestinian gunmen in air and ground strikes in the southern Gaza Strip and dismantled military infrastructure.

Some residents of Khan Younis sifted through rubble on Friday in an attempt to retrieve clothes and documents, while children looked for their toys.

Ahmed Sobh recounted how his cousin had screamed "Help me, help me".

"We ran and found her children, a boy and a girl, martyred. Her son was lying under the concrete column, it took us 1.5 hours to get him out," he told Reuters.

Ahmed al-Farra described digging relatives including his mother from the rubble, adding he had lost 15 members of his extended family during the airstrikes.

"As I was trying to dig (my mother) out I looked at this wall and saw a tank aiming at me. I was thinking 'shall I dig or shall I watch the tank,' what shall I do? I dug her out full of fear. Everyone was doing the same, digging in fear," he said.

At the nearby Nasser Hospital, medics prepared the dead, among them three children wrapped in the same white shroud.

In northern Gaza, where an area around the town of Jabalia has been the target of a weeks-long offensive, health officials said Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities struggling to operate there, and stationed forces outside it.

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