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Arab News
02-05-2025
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Gaza rescuers say 42 killed in Israeli strikes
GAZA CITY: Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people Friday in the Palestinian territory, devastated by war and under a total Israeli aid blockade for two months. Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18 after the collapse of a ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting. Nine people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, civil defense official Mohammed Al-Mughayyir told AFP. AFP footage in the aftermath of a strike on Bureij camp showed Palestinians searching for casualties in the rubble of a flattened building. 'They gave us no warning, no phone call — we woke up at midnight to smoke, rubble, stones, and shrapnel raining down on us,' said Mohammed Al-Sheikh, standing among collapsed concrete slabs. 'We pulled out martyrs — bodies and limbs from under the rubble.' Another six people were killed in a strike targeting the Al-Masri family home in the northern city of Beit Lahia, civil defense official Mughayyir added. In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen claimed the lives of six more, the civil defense agency reported. Across the Gaza Strip, at least 21 other deaths were reported in similar attacks, the agency said. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed its campaign in Gaza, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,418. The war erupted after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still being held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. The Israeli government says its renewed campaign aims to force Hamas to free the remaining captives, although critics charge it puts them in mortal danger. Israel halted aid deliveries to Gaza on March 2, days before the collapse of the ceasefire which had come into effect on January 19. The United Nations has repeatedly warned of the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe on the ground, with famine again looming. On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said the humanitarian response in Gaza was on the 'verge of total collapse.' 'This situation must not — and cannot — be allowed to escalate further,' its deputy director of operations, Pascal Hundt, said in a statement.
Arab News
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill at least 29
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza's civil defense agency said Thursday Israeli bombardment killed at least 29 people since midnight in the war-ravaged territory, which has been under Israeli aid blockade for nearly two months. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile said that while the military's mission was to bring home all the hostages from Gaza, its 'supreme goal' was to achieve victory against Hamas. Israel resumed its campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, after a two-month truce collapsed over disagreements between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas whose 2023 attack triggered the conflict. Civil defense official Mohammed Al-Mughayyir said Thursday's toll included eight people killed in an air strike on the Abu Sahlul family home in Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza. Four people were killed in an air strike east of Shaaf in Gaza City's Al-Tuffah neighborhood, he told AFP. At least 17 more were killed in other attacks across the Palestinian territory, including one that hit a tent sheltering displaced people near the central city of Deir el-Balah, the agency said. 'We came here and found all these houses destroyed, and children, women and young people all bombed to pieces,' said Ahmed Abu Zarqa after a deadly strike in Khan Yunis. 'This is no way to live. Enough, we're tired, enough! 'We don't know what to do with our lives any more. We'd rather die than live this kind of life.' At Nasser Hospital AFP images showed residents digging through rubble in search of bodies, which were carried away on stretchers under blankets. At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, rescuers rushed a screaming wounded child out of an ambulance, as a group of women mourned. 'What have the children done wrong? What have we done wrong? Enough is enough. Just drop a nuclear bomb on us,' said Ghada Abu Sahlul as she mourned the death of a relative. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,418. The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still being held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
