
Scores reported killed in Gaza as fighting shatters Israel-Hamas truce
ISRAEL'S warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and forcing hundreds to flee in the streets. Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment as the deadline lapsed shortly after dawn, with columns of smoke rising into the sky, Reuters journalists in the city said. Residents took to the road with belongings heaped up in carts, searching for shelter further west. In the north of the enclave, previously the main war zone, huge plumes of smoke rose above the ruins, seen…