Palestinians say Israeli army killed two in West Bank, including one teen
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Asharq Al-Awsat
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94 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Including 45 People Waiting for Aid
Airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 45 while attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel's military did not have immediate comment on the strikes, The Associated Press reported. Five people were killed while outside sites associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the newly created, secretive American organization backed by Israel to feed the Gaza Strip's population, while 40 others were killed waiting for aid trucks in other locations across the Gaza Strip. Dozens of people were killed in airstrikes that pounded the Strip Wednesday night and Thursday morning, including 15 people killed in strikes that hit tents in the sprawling Muwasi zone, where many displaced Palestinians are sheltering, and a strike on a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people. Gaza's Health Ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has passed 57,000, including 223 missing people who have been declared dead. The ministry doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants in its death count but says that more than half of the dead are women and children. The deaths come as Israel and Hamas inch closer to a possible ceasefire that would end the 21-month war. Trump said Tuesday that Israel had agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen. But Hamas' response, which emphasized its demand that the war end, raised questions about whether the latest offer could materialize into an actual pause in fighting. The Israeli military blames Hamas for the civilian casualties because it operates from populated areas. The military said it targeted Hamas members and rocket launchers in northern Gaza that launched rockets towards Israel on Wednesday. The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. The war has left the coastal Palestinian territory in ruins, with much of the urban landscape flattened in the fighting. More than 90% of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been displaced, often multiple times. And the war has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands of people hungry.
Al Arabiya
a day ago
- Al Arabiya
Director of key Gaza hospital killed in Israel strike
Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Wednesday that an Israeli strike killed the director of the Indonesian Hospital, a key clinic in northern Gaza. Doctor Marwan Al-Sultan was killed in his apartment in Gaza City along with his wife, daughters and son-in-law, a relative who said he found them, Ahmed al-Sultan, told AFP. The doctor's body was taken to the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, his face barely recognizable, the director of that facility, Mohammad Abu Salmiya, told AFP. The killing drew condemnation from Hamas and the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, where Israeli forces are battling to crush the Palestinian militant group. 'We strongly condemn this heinous crime against our medical personnel, and we ask Allah to grant him and his family mercy, after a long journey of service,' the ministry said. The Israeli army told AFP: 'The claim that as a result of the strike uninvolved civilians were harmed is being reviewed.' It said it 'struck a key terrorist from the Hamas terrorist organization in the area of Gaza City' on Wednesday.
Arab News
2 days ago
- Arab News
Israeli army kills two in West Bank, including one teen
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian health ministry said Tuesday that the Israeli army killed two people including a 15-year-old boy in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank. 'At dawn today, Tuesday, 15-year-old child Amjad Nassar Abu Awad was martyred by Israeli gunfire in the city of Ramallah,' the ministry said in a statement. 'Also at dawn today, 24-year-old young man Samer Bassam Zagharneh was martyred by Israeli gunfire near the town of Dhahiriya' in the southern West Bank, the ministry added. The Israeli military told AFP it was 'looking into' the two reported incidents. Around 20 people, mostly young boys and teenagers, had gathered at a Ramallah hospital to mourn Abu Awad, an AFP journalist at the scene reported. In tears, the boys touched Abu Awad's face in the white light of the hospital morgue. Two Palestinian teenagers, aged 13 and 15, were killed last week in the West Bank towns of Al-Yamoun and Kafr Malik respectively. Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Violence has soared in the West Bank since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that triggered the Gaza war. Since then, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 946 Palestinians, including many militants, according to the health ministry. Over the same period, at least 35 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to Israeli figures.
