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Asharq Al-Awsat
29-05-2025
- Health
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Israel Strike on a Home in Gaza Kills 22 as it Orders Hospital Evacuation
An Israeli strike on a house in central Gaza on Thursday killed 22 people, including nine women and children. The airstrike hit a family home in Bureij, an urban refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby town of Deir al-Balah. An Associated Press journalist viewed the hospital records of the dead from the strike. Strikes in northern Gaza late Wednesday and early Thursday hit a house, killing eight people, including two women and three children, and a car in Gaza City, killing four, local hospitals said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which says it only targets fighters and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the gunmen operate in populated areas. Meanwhile the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in northern Gaza, staff said. Dr. Rami al-Ashrafi said the army wants to evacuate everyone in Al-Awda Hospital in the heavily devastated Jabaliya area. One of the last functioning medical centers in northern Gaza, the hospital has been encircled by Israeli troops and has come under fire in recent days. Speaking by phone to the AP, al-Ashrafi said there are 82 staffers, including doctors, and seven patients left at the hospital. A total of 30 patients and 57 staff were already evacuated Tuesday, he said Israeli authorities issued evacuation orders last week for large parts of northern Gaza ahead of offensives against Hamas, although the army did not order the hospital itself to evacuate. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, said last week that Israeli military operations and evacuation orders in Gaza 'are stretching the health system beyond the breaking point.'
ABC News
25-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Israeli strike in Gaza kills dozens, including children sheltering in tent
At least 38 people have been killed in the latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, including a mother and her two children sheltering in a tent, according to local health officials. The strikes came on Sunday local time as part of Israel's renewed offensive in the enclave, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killed at least 3,785 people since March. Israeli authorities have vowed to destroy Hamas with the offensive and force the return of 58 hostages the terror group still holds from the October 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war. Hamas has said it would only release the hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal. The new strike on a tent housing displaced people that killed a mother and her children occurred in the central city of Deir al-Balah, according to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Another strike in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza killed at least five people, including two women and a child, the health ministry said. The strike in Jabalia also killed local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members, while another strike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife, local medics said. The attacks followed a trickle of humanitarian aid that was allowed into Gaza last week by Israel, after months of the country blocking the import of all food, medicine and fuel in a move that has sparked experts' warnings about famine. United States Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was scheduled to visit Israel on Sunday and expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has been pursuing a new plan to tightly control all aid to Gaza, which the United Nations has rejected. The executive director of the UN World Food Programme, Cindy McCain, told CBS she has not seen evidence to support Israel's claims that Hamas is responsible for the looting of aid trucks. "These people are desperate, and they see a World Food Programme truck coming in and they run for it," she said. Israel also says it plans to seize full control of Gaza and facilitate what it describes as the voluntary migration of much of its population of over 2 million Palestinians. That plan has also been rejected by Palestinians and much of the international community, with some experts saying it would likely violate international law. In a separate Israeli strike that hit Gaza on Friday, only one of paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar's 10 children survived at their home near the southern city of Khan Younis. The 11-year-old and Ms al-Najjar's husband Hamdi al-Najjar, who is also a doctor, were badly hurt. The charred remains of the children were put into a single body bag according to Alaa al-Zayan, a fellow paediatrician at Gaza's Nasser Hospital. The home was struck minutes after Mr al-Najjar had driven his wife to the hospital. His brother, Ismail al-Najjar, was first to arrive at the scene and said the youngest child to be killed in the strikes was seven months old. "And my brother has no business with [Palestinian] factions." Israel said on Saturday that "the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review". It says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because it operates in densely populated areas. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the latest strikes. In Khan Younis on Friday, two staffers of the International Committee of the Red Cross were killed when shelling struck their home, the ICRC said. Israeli strikes have killed more than 150 emergency responders from the Red Crescent and Civil Defense, most of them on duty, since the war started, according to the UN. "This is not an endless war," Israel's military chief of staff, said Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir during a visit to Khan Younis. Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the October 7 attack and abducted 251 people. Around a third of the remaining hostages are believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israel's 19-month offensive has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which says women and children make up most of the dead. It does not provide figures for the number of civilians or combatants killed. The offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced about 90 per cent of the territory's population, often multiple times. The strikes on Gaza came on the same day that European and Arab leaders gathered in Madrid, Spain for talks aimed at urging an end to Israel's offensive in the enclave. Some of Israel's long-standing allies have added their voices to growing international pressure after it expanded its operations against Hamas. On Sunday, Spain's foreign minister declared that the international community should look at sanctions against Israel in a bid to end the war. "Silence in these moments is complicity in this massacre … that is why we are meeting," Jose Manuel Albares told reporters before the talks. Mr Albares also said the discussions were focused on putting a stop to Israel's "inhumane" and "senseless" war, and that humanitarian aid must enter Gaza "massively, without conditions and without limits, and not controlled by Israel". Representatives from European countries including France, Britain, Germany and Italy joined envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at the meeting in Madrid. After the European Union decided this week to review its cooperation deal with Israel, Mr Albares told reporters Spain would request its "immediate suspension" and promote a two-state solution to the conflict. The country will also look to urge partners to impose an arms embargo on Israel and "not rule out any" individual sanctions against those "who want to ruin the two-state solution forever", he added. The diplomatic drive comes one month before a UN conference on the Israel-Palestinian conflict presided over by France and Saudi Arabia. AP
BreakingNews.ie
25-05-2025
- Politics
- BreakingNews.ie
More than a dozen killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including a mother and her two children who were inside a tent, local health officials said. Israel ended a ceasefire and renewed its offensive in March, vowing to destroy Hamas and return the 58 hostages it still holds from the October 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war. Israel also blocked the import of all food, medicine and fuel for two-and-a-half months, before letting a trickle of aid enter last week. Advertisement Israel says it plans to seize full control of Gaza and facilitate what it refers to as the voluntary migration of much of its population of two million Palestinians a plan that has been rejected by Palestinians and much of the international community, and which experts say would likely violate international law. The strike overnight into Sunday hit a tent housing displaced people in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, killing the mother, her two children and another relative, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. A mass protest was held in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday as people demanded an end of the war and the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas (Leo Correa/AP) A strike in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza killed at least five people, including two women and a child, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Additional strikes killed another five people, according to local hospitals. Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because it operates in densely populated areas. There was no immediate comment from the military on the latest strikes. Advertisement Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the October 7 attack and abducted 251 people. They are still holding 58, around a third of whom are believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israel's 19-month offensive has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which says women and children make up most of the dead but does not provide figures for the number of civilians or combatants killed. The offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of the territory's population.
