The hospital said 54 people were killed in overnight air strikes in southern Gaza, the hospital said
Khan Yunis: Authorities say multiple air strikes hit Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city, until Thursday, killing more than 50 people on the second consecutive night, while another air strike in northern Palestinian territory killed more than a dozen people.
The strike was a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to the Middle East, visiting the Gulf countries but not Israel. There is a widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit could introduce a ceasefire agreement or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel’s blockade of the territory is now entering its third month.
An Associated Press photographer of Khan Younis calculated 10 air strikes in the city overnight on Thursday and saw many bodies taking many bodies to the morgue of the city’s Nasser Hospital. Due to the extent of the injury, it took some time to identify some of the bodies. The hospital’s morgue confirmed that 54 people were killed.
The deceased included a reporter working on Katari TV Network Arabic.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike.
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after at least 70 people killed in northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday, including nearly twenty children.
In Hamas, the Gazaians – the first response agency operated under the government, Jabaliya in northern Southern Gaza attacked a complex that included a mosque and a small medical clinic, killing 13 people.
Khan Younis of Nasser Hospital in Safaa al-Najjar mourned her face with blood and cried as the shrouded body of her two children was brought to her: 1 1/2 year old Motaz al-Bayyok and 1 1/2 month old Moaz Al-Bayyok.
The family was trapped in an all-night air raid. The other five of her other five children range from ages 3 to 12, and her husband was injured in intensive care.
One of her sons, Yusuf, 11, had his head tightly tightened as his young siblings screamed as the shrouds of his young siblings were separated.
“I gave them dinner and let them sleep as usual, and that was a normal day. Suddenly I didn’t know what was going on, and the world was upside down,” she said as others tried to comfort her. “I don’t know, I don’t know… what is their fault? What is their fault?”
Outside the hospital, the mourners gathered to pray, and the dead were lined up in white corpse bags, loaded onto trucks and buried.
Israel vowed to upgrade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier this week to escalate its commitment to escalate force in the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip in pursuit of the goal of destroying Hamas militants that rule Gaza.
In a comment from Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that Israeli forces “have a lot of strength to complete the mission…it means destroying Hamas.”
International rights group Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel’s stated plan was to seize Gaza and displace thousands of people “nearly inches of extinction” and called on the international community to object.
The war began with Hamas-led militants invading a 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s retaliatory offensive killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, many of whom were women and children, not to say how many were combatants. The ministry said nearly 3,000 people have been killed since Israel broke into the ceasefire on March 18.
The Ministry of Health said Thursday morning that the bodies of 82 people who had died in the Israeli strike were taken to hospitals within the past 24 hours. The overall death toll in Palestine rose to 53,010, with another 119,998 injured.
Hamas still held 58 of about 250 hostages in the October 7 attack on Israel, and 23 remained alive despite Israeli authorities’ concerns about the status of three.
Gaza’s only hospital failed to treat cancer due to Israel’s strike, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday.
The ministry added that the closure stopped all specialized treatments, including cardiac surgery and cancer care.
Israeli military conducted two air strikes on European hospitals on Tuesday, saying it targeted the Hamas command center below the facility. Six people were killed during the strike.
European hospital director Imad al-Hout told the Associated Press that the hospital had 200 patients during the strike on Tuesday. They were all gradually evacuated, and the last 90 were moved to other hospitals, including at Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital on Wednesday morning. He added that efforts are now being made to coordinate the maintenance of the facility.
Israeli Palestinians lined up next to the area under Israeli bombing Thursday, with Israeli aid blocking Israeli third month in desperate need of food as Israeli aid blockade entered its third month and therefore lined up under Israeli bombing.
In the charitable kitchen of Beit Lahia’s rubble, dozens of Palestinians stood in crowded lines, pressing each other tightly, holding empty pots and plastic containers in the air, hoping to receive vegetable soup.
Um Abed was displaced by 20 family members, waiting in line from 9 a.m. and returning empty-handed for the second consecutive day as the number far exceeded the available food.
“I have a 3-year-old who is crying all day because he wants to eat…we want them to stop the war and allow food to go in,” Um Abed yelled on the camera with his empty pot lifted up.
Israel’s offensive destroyed extensive fragments of Gaza’s urban landscape and displaced 90% of the population, usually multiple times. It stopped the entry of all aid (including food and drugs) into the territory on March 2, with international food security experts warning that Gaza could fall into famine if Israel does not lift the lockdown and stop its military campaign.
According to the survey results of the Integrated Food Security Stage Classification, nearly one million Palestinians face possible hunger and one million people are barely able to access enough food, which is the leading international agency for the severity of the hunger crisis.
Israeli government spokesman David Mencer denied on Thursday that there was a food shortage in Gaza and claimed that Hamas “stayed up…they need to open food to the people.”
Human Rights Watch said Israel’s plan to seize Gaza and stay there, coupled with “system damage” of civilian infrastructure, and all obstacles to importing into the territory, was a genocide convention signed to prevent Israeli action. The group also called on Hamas to release the hostages it still owns.
Israel strongly denied accusing it of genocide in Gaza.
