Israeli tanks retreat from central Gaza camp, medics say 30 killed

Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians overnight in the Gaza Strip, most of them in the Nuseirat camp at the centre of the enclave, medics said on Friday after some tanks pulled back from an area they had raided.

Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in the northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave's eight long-standing refugee camps.

Some tanks remained active in the western area of the camp and the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said teams were unable to respond to distress calls from residents trapped inside their houses.

Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities released around 30 Palestinians whom it had detained in Gaza in the past months. The released people arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza for medical checkups, medics said.