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Nearly 100 killed in Israel strike on Gaza

An Israeli air strike on a single residential block killed nearly 100 people on Tuesday, Gaza's civil defense agency said, leaving rescuers scrambling for survivors as Israel pursued its offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israel's key ally and backer the United States called the strike — which killed a large number of children — "horrifying".

Gaza rescuers say over 93 people killed in Israel air strike in north

Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli airstrike killed more than 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia.

"The number of martyrs in the massacre of the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahia has risen to 93 martyrs, and about 40 are still missing under the rubble," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP in an updated toll.