Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza leaves scores dead

Medical staff and emergency services say those killed in the attack include many women and children

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Scores of Palestinians including many women and children have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a crowded apartment building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

Gaza's health ministry said the death toll was at least 60, as emergency workers dug through the rubble looking for the dead and injured on Tuesday morning. Many of those present at the time of the attack were members of the extended Abu Nasr family.