The Israeli military acknowledged on Thursday that it was responsible for killing a United Nations aid worker in a strike on a UN guesthouse in Gaza last month, backtracking on its previous denials in the face of mounting public evidence of Israeli responsibility.

In a rare apology to the United Nations, Israel said its forces had struck a U.N. compound in Gaza with tank fire. A Bulgarian aid worker was killed.

Israel had previously denied its troops were responsible for the killing of a UN worker with tank fire on 19 March.

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 39 people, mostly women and children, the territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday.Eleven people were killed when an airstrike struck a home in Gaza City on Thursday afternoon,

At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials and first responders say. Nine people died in the morning when a missile hit a police station in the market area of Jabalia town,

Gaza rescue teams and medics said Israeli air strikes killed at least 55 people on Thursday, as the military threatened an even larger offensive if hostages were not freed soon.