Israeli strikes kill 30 in Gaza, including rescue service official and local journalist
Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, including a senior rescue service official and a journalist, local health authorities said.
The latest deaths in the Israeli campaign resulted from separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in central Gaza, medical staff said.
In Jabalia, they said local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members were killed by an air strike that hit his house earlier on Sunday.
Another air strike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife in their house, doctors said.
The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said that Abu Warda's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 220.
Israel's military said in a statement that chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited troops in Khan Younis on Sunday, telling them that 'this is not an endless war' and that Hamas has lost most of its assets, including its command and control.
'We will deploy every tool at our disposal to bring the hostages home, dismantle Hamas and dismantle its rule,' Zamir was cited as saying.
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