UPDATED: Israeli strikes kill at least 29 people since dawn- Gaza civil defence - War on Gaza

Al-Ahram Weekly

02-05-2025

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 29 people on Friday, as the besieged territory faces ongoing bombardment and a two-month-long blockade preventing all aid from entering.
Israel resumed its "live-streamed genocide" on March 18 after launching surprise attacks on Gaza, unilaterally violating a ceasefire that brought relative calm to the war-torn strip.
Nine people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP.
Another six people were killed in a separate strike targeting the Al-Masri family home in the northern city of Beit Lahia, he added.
In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen claimed the lives of six more, the civil defence agency reported. Elsewhere across the Gaza Strip, at least eight additional fatalities were reported in similar attacks, the agency said.
Gaza's health ministry said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed war on 18 March, bringing the total death toll since the war began on 7 October 2023 to 52,418—most of them women and children—with at least 118,091 others wounded.
Israel halted aid deliveries to Gaza on March 2, prompting repeated warnings from the United Nations of an escalating humanitarian catastrophe, with famine once again looming.
On Friday, the Red Cross warned that the humanitarian response in Gaza was on the "verge of total collapse".
"This situation must not -- and cannot -- be allowed to escalate further," Pascal Hundt, ICRC Deputy Director of Operations said in a statement.
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