Israeli attacks in Gaza on Thursday killed at least 44 more Palestinians, including a couple and their four children who died when an airstrike flattened their home in northern Gaza City.
The strike came as the family was sleeping, said Nidal Al-Sarafiti, a relative. “What can I say? The destruction has spared no one,” he said.
At least 10 people were killed in another strike on a former police station in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza. “The bombing was extremely intense and it shook the entire area,” said survivor Abdel Qader Sabah, 23. “Everyone started running and screaming, not knowing what to do from the horror and severity of the bombing.”
Elsewhere at least 28 Palestinians were killed in a series of strikes across Gaza, including several in the southern area of Khan Younis. “We were sitting in peace when the missile fell,” said Mohammed Faris, who saw a strike on a house in the city. “I just don't understand ... what's happening.”
Bodies lay on the ground around him, including those of a young woman and a boy in body bags, surrounded by grieving relatives kissing and stroking their faces. “One by one we are ... dying in pieces,” said Rania Al-Jumla, who lost her sister in another airstrike in Khan Younis. “We have had enough. Every day there’s death, every day we lose someone dear to us.”
The Durra Children’s Hospital in Gaza City was out of operation a day after an Israeli strike hit the upper part of the building, damaging the intensive care unit and destroying the solar power system. No one was killed.
Gaza’s health system has been devastated by Israel’s 18-month war, putting many of the enclave’s hospitals out of action, killing doctors and other medical staff, and blocking the delivery of crucial supplies.
Mediation efforts by Qatar and Egypt have ground to a halt after failing to deliver a sustainable truce between Israel and Hamas.Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, the territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday.Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground war over a month ago. It has sealed off Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians from all food and other imports since the beginning of March to pressure Hamas to release hostages.
Hamas has said it will only release the remaining 59 captives, 24 of whom are believed to be alive, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 hostages. Most have since been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israel’s offensive has killed over 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.
Here’s the latest: At least 28 dead as Israel pounds Gaza
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
At least nine people were killed in a strike on a police station in the northern Jabaliya area, the ministry said. The Israeli military said it targeted a command and control center for Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group.
At least seven people were killed, including a mother and her two children, and another two children, in three strikes on the southern city of Khan Younis. Strikes in central Gaza killed six people, including two women and two children. An airstrike on a home in Gaza City killed four children and their parents, the Health Ministry said.
