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Observer
6 days ago
- Politics
- Observer
Israeli strikes kill 23 Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA CITY: Israeli military strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip 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 Yunis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, medics 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, medics added. The 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 Yunis on Sunday, telling them that "this is not an endless war." The statement did not address Sunday's strikes. In a separate statement, the Gaza media office said Israeli forces were in control of 77 per cent of the Gaza Strip, either through ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardments that keep residents away from their homes. Meanwhile, the international community should look to sanction Israel to stop the war in Gaza, Spain's foreign minister said, as European and Arab nations gathered in Madrid on Sunday to urge a halt to its offensive. Some of Israel's longstanding allies have added their voices to growing international pressure after it expanded military operations against Hamas. A two-month aid blockade has worsened shortages of food, water, fuel and medicine in the Palestinian territory, stoking fears of famine. Aid organisations say the trickle of supplies Israel has recently allowed to enter falls far short of needs. The talks in Madrid aim to stop Israel's "inhumane" and "senseless" war in Gaza, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told reporters before the gathering opened. Humanitarian aid must enter Gaza "massively, without conditions and without limits, and not controlled by Israel", he added, describing the Strip as humanity's "open wound". "Silence in these moments is complicity in this massacre... that is why we are meeting," said Albares. Representatives from European countries including France, Britain, Germany and Italy are joining envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Morocco, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Norway, Iceland, Ireland and Slovenia, who like Spain have already recognised a Palestinian state, are also taking part alongside Brazil.
Shafaq News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Shafaq News
US pushes for ceasefire as Israel intensifies Gaza assault: 50 dead in school attack
Shafaq News/ As the United States prepares to unveil a potential ceasefire deal in Gaza within days, Israeli forces intensified their operations across the enclave on Monday, killing at least 50 Palestinians, including 36 in a single strike on a school sheltering displaced families. According to Arab media, the 'school massacre' in Gaza City's al-Daraj neighborhood marked one of the deadliest single incidents since Israel resumed its campaign 70 days ago, pushing the cumulative total to 53,939 killed and 122,797 injured since October 7, 2023. متداول| طفلة تحاول النجاة بعد أن حاصرتها النيران جراء قصف الاحتلال مدرسة فهمي الجرجاوي التي تؤوي نازحين في حي الدرج بمدينة غزة. — شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) May 26, 2025 An airstrike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife in their house. Rescue teams also recovered 19 bodies from the rubble of a house hit in Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza, including local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members, as heavy shelling and airstrikes targeted eastern and southern Khan Younis. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office reported that Abu Warda's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 220. Meanwhile, humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate. The World Health Organization said most hospitals in Gaza are operating only partially due to a lack of staff and critical supplies. The World Food Programme echoed those concerns, warning of "severe food insecurity" across the Strip. Jake Wood—the CEO of the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, jointly backed by the US and Israel—announced his resignation. In a statement, Wood indicated that while he had helped develop 'a pragmatic plan' to address hunger and security in Gaza, it could not be implemented 'while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon.' Despite his departure, the Foundation announced that aid deliveries to Gaza would begin Monday, though concerns remain over access, safety, and adequacy. In Washington, President Donald Trump is expected to announce a ceasefire deal tied to a hostage release arrangement, according to Sky News Arabia. The report follows Trump's remarks on Sunday, where he expressed a desire to end the war, stating, 'We want to see if we can stop that [war]. And Israel, we've been talking to them… we want to stop that whole situation as quickly as possible.' Still, Israeli media note that the campaign is expanding, with reports suggesting objectives aimed at reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip and destroying what remains of its infrastructure—despite increasing global pressure for a humanitarian truce.
The Independent
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Rescue official and journalist among 40 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, medics say
Israel 's latest attacks on Gaza killed 40 people and injured dozens, according to local health officials, as the military continued its onslaught on the besieged Palestinian territory. Children were among those said to be killed as Israeli forces targeted a school housing displaced people in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City on Sunday. Images circulating on social media showed badly burned bodies lying in the destroyed school. A senior rescue service official and a journalist were killed in separate strikes on Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, Reuters reported. Journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several of his family members were killed after Israeli forces struck his house in Jabalia on Sunday. His death took the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israel's war on Gaza to 220, according to the health ministry in the Hamas -run Strip. Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the Gazan civil emergency service, and his wife were killed in the Nuseirat airstrike. Yaqeen Hammad, an 11-year-old social media celebrity, was also killed in the Israeli raids, Al Jazeera reported. Children account for 31 per cent of Palestinians killed in Israel's nearly two-year-long offensive on Gaza, the health ministry said. Israel stepped up its military operations in the territory in early May saying it was seeking to eliminate Hamas 's military and governing capabilities and bring back the remaining hostages who were taken in October 2023. Gaza's medics said Israel had taken control of around 77 per cent of the territory either through ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardments that kept residents away from their homes. Despite mounting international pressure on Israel to lift a blockade on aid supplies in the face of warnings of looming famine, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel was determined to control the whole of Gaza. UN secretary general Antonio Guterres last week sounded the alarm over 'atrocious levels of death and destruction' by Israel in Gaza while warning that Israeli forces were allowing "a teaspoon of aid" into Gaza. COGAT, the Israeli defence body overseeing aid for Gaza, said 107 trucks of aid entered Sunday, about a sixth of the 600 trucks that entered the embattled territory during the ceasefire earlier this year. Israel blocked all food, medicine and fuel from entering Gaza for almost three months before letting a small number of aid trucks enter last week after warnings about famine and pressure from some of Israel's top allies. "Palestinians in Gaza are enduring what may be the cruelest phase of this cruel conflict," the UN secretary general said on Friday. Israel's military said in a statement that chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited soldiers in Khan Younis on Sunday and told them that "this is not an endless war" and that Hamas had 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," he was quoted as saying. The armed wings of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said in separate statements on Sunday that their fighters carried out several ambushes and attacks using bombs and antitank rockets against Israeli forces operating across Gaza. Israel launched a ground and air assault on Gaza after nearly 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage during a Hamas raid into southern Israel in October 2023. Israel has since killed more than 53,900 Palestinians, according to the local health authorities, left the territory in ruins and pushed nearly all of its two million residents from their homes.
RTÉ News
6 days ago
- Health
- RTÉ News
At least 20 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school
An Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza killed 20 people and injured dozens, the territory's civil defence agency said. Medics said the dozens of casualties in the strike on the school, in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, included women and children. Despite mounting international pressure that pushed Israel to lift a blockade on aid supplies in the face of warnings of looming famine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel would control the whole of Gaza. At the weekend, Gaza rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from the rubble after a series of Israeli strikes. In one home in Jabalia, in the north, seven people were killed and several others stuck under debris, according to a civil defence spokesman. He said the civil defence does not have the necessary search equipment or heavy equipment to recover the dead and wounded. Two more people, including a woman who was seven months pregnant, were killed in an attack targeting tents sheltering displaced people around Nuseirat in central Gaza, he said, adding that doctors were unable to save the unborn child. Also included in the toll were the civil defence's director of operations Ashraf Abu Nar and his wife, the spokesman added. Fatal strikes were also recorded around Deir el-Balah in the centre of the territory, Beit Lahia in the north and the main southern city of Khan Younis. Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that a couple's nine children were killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, with the Israeli army saying it was reviewing the reports. Israel has in recent days partially eased a blockade that was imposed on 2 March and exacerbated widespread shortages of food and medicine in Gaza. COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry body that coordinates civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories, said "107 trucks belonging to the UN and the international community carrying humanitarian aid ... were transferred" into Gaza yesterday. But critics charge this is nowhere near enough, especially as many of the aid trucks end up being looted. The World Food Programme has called on Israel "to get far greater volumes of food assistance into Gaza faster", saying, "hunger, desperation and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming is contributing to rising insecurity." It comes as the head of a controversial US-backed group preparing to move aid into Gaza announced his abrupt resignation, adding fresh uncertainty over the effort's future. In a statement by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, executive director Jake Wood explained that he felt compelled to leave after determining the organisation could not fulfil its mission in a way that adhered to "humanitarian principles". The foundation, which has been based in Geneva since February, has vowed to distribute some 300 million meals in its first 90 days of operation. But the United Nations and traditional aid agencies have already said they will not cooperate with the group, amid accusations it is working with Israel. Israel stepped up its military operations in Gaza in early May, saying it is seeking to eliminate Hamas' military and governing capabilities and bring back the remaining hostages who were seized in October 2023. Israel has taken control of around 77% of the enclave either through its ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardments that keep residents away from their homes, Gaza's media office said. The Israeli campaign has devastated Gaza and pushed nearly all of its two million residents from their homes. Israeli attacks have killed more than 53,000 people, many of them civilians, according to Gaza health authorities. The Hamas attack on Israeli communities on 7 October 2023 killed about 1,200 people, according to AFP tallies.
Ya Libnan
6 days ago
- Politics
- Ya Libnan
Israeli strikes kill 30 in Gaza, including a journalist and rescue service official, update
A rescuer walks over rubble to assess damage and look for survivors, in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 23, 2025, in this screengrab taken from video. Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via REUTERS CAIRO – Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a local journalist and a senior rescue service official, 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 the central Gaza Strip, medics said. In Jabalia, they said local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members were killed by an airstrike that hit his house earlier on Sunday. Another airstrike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife in their house, medics added. There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said that Abu Warda's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 220. In a separate statement, the media office said Israeli forces were in control of 77% of the Gaza Strip, either through ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardment that keeps residents away from their homes. The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said in separate statements on Sunday that fighters carried out several ambushes and attacks using bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces operating in several areas across Gaza. On Friday the Israeli military said it had conducted more strikes in Gaza overnight, hitting 75 targets including weapons storage facilities and rocket launchers. Israel launched an air and ground war in Gaza after Hamas militants' cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people by Israeli tallies with 251 hostages abducted into Gaza. The conflict has killed more than 53,900 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, and devastated the coastal strip. Aid groups say signs of severe malnutrition are widespread. (Reuters)
