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Mint
6 days ago
- Politics
- Mint
Israel-Hamas war: A day after ‘hordes of hungry people' loot Gaza food warehouse, Israeli attacks claim 44 lives
A day after a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in the centre of Gaza was looted by desperate Palestinians, around 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the war-torn area on Thursday. "Forty-four people have been killed in Israeli raids", including 23 in a strike on a home in Al-Bureij, according to news agency AFP, citing Gaza civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir. "Two people were killed and several injured by Israeli forces' gunfire this morning near the American aid centre in the Morag axis, southern Gaza Strip," Mughayyir added. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reported deaths in Al-Bureij and near the aid centre. Israeli forces had struck "dozens of terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip" over the past day, the military said separately. An attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, by Hamas triggered the Gaza war. Humanitarian aid finally began to trickle back into Gaza after over two months of blockade, but the situation remains dire after 18 months of devastating war. Starvation is looming for one in five people, said the AFP report, citing food security experts. On Wednesday, thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed into a WFP warehouse in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, taking away bags of emergency food supplies as gunshots rang out. "Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP's Al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution," the UN agency said in a statement. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told the Security Council that aid was entering Gaza by truck -- under limited authorisation by Israel at the Kerem Shalom crossing -- and accused the UN of "trying to block" GHF's work through "threats, intimidation and retaliation against NGOs that choose to participate". The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is facing intense criticism as it has bypassed the longstanding UN-led system in the territory. The UN has said it is doing its utmost to facilitate the distribution of the limited assistance allowed by Israel's authorities.
Observer
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Observer
15 killed in Israeli attacks
GAZA CITY: Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that 15 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Palestinian territory including five in one strike in Gaza City. "Fifteen people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza since dawn," civil defence official Mohammed al Mughayyir said. Five people were killed in an air strike on a tent in Gaza City at dawn he said. Elsewhere in the territory, where Israel's army resumed its offensive in March following a two-month truce, four people were killed in an Israeli bombardment in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip. One child was killed in gunfire by the Israeli navy on the coast of Rafah, in the south of Gaza, Mughayyir added. AFP images showed mourners alongside bodies wrapped in white shrouds, which relatives said belonged to a single family killed in the Gaza City strike. "Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an (Israeli) occupation aircraft," family member Omar Abu al Kass said. The strikes came "without warning and without having done anything wrong," added Abu al Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. The new German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who was due to visit Israel, called for "serious discussions for a ceasefire" in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation "is now unbearable". Wadephul is scheduled to meet with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar, on Sunday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack, which killed 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Israeli retaliatory war has killed at least 52,810 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable. — AFP
Jordan Times
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
Gaza rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 17
Palestinians inspect the damage following Israeli strikes on apartments in a residential building in Gaza City's Yarmuk street on April 24, 2025 (AFP photo) GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 17 people across the territory, while more trapped under the rubble after a family home was hit. Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month truce that had largely halted the fighting. "Israeli air strikes in several areas killed 17 people since dawn," civil defence official Mohammed Al Mughayyir told AFP. A strike on the house of Al-Khour family in Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood killed 10 people, Mughayyir said, with witnesses reporting an estimated 20 victims trapped beneath the rubble. Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency, had earlier said that about 30 people were missing under the rubble. Umm Walid Al Khour, who survived the attack, said that "everyone was sleeping with their children" when the strike hit. "The house collapsed on top of us," she told AFP. "Those who survived cried for help but nobody came... Most of the deceased were children." AFP footage showed rescuers searching under the rubble as a wounded man was pulled out from the debris. Elsewhere in the city, three people were killed in Israeli shelling of a house in the Al-Shati refugee camp, Mughayyir said. More strikes across the Gaza Strip killed four others. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. According to figures released Friday by the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, the renewed Israeli campaign since last month had killed at least 2,062 Palestinians, taking the overall war death toll in the territory to 51,439 people since the war began. The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Fighters also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel says the renewed military campaign aims to force Hamas to free the remaining captives.
The Hindu
25-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Rescuers say death toll from Israeli strike on north Gaza home rises to 23
Gaza's civil defence agency reported on Friday (April 25, 2025) that the death toll from an Israeli air strike the day before on a house in the north of the Palestinian territory had risen to 23. "Civil defence teams recovered 11 bodies last night and this morning following the Israeli bombing that targeted a residential house ... in Jabalia," Mohammed al-Mughayyir, an official with the agency, told AFP. "This is in addition to the 12 victims recovered at the time of the attack yesterday," he added. Gaza's northern area of Jabalia has repeatedly been a focus Israel's military offensive since the start of the war on October 7, 2023 following Hamas's attack on Israel. The military has returned to the district several times after announcing it had been cleared of militants, saying Hamas fighters had regrouped there. In another strike in the area on Thursday, Israel hit what was previously a police station, rescuers said. The toll from that attack has risen to 11, Mughayyir said, after initially announcing that nine people had been killed. The military said on Thursday that it had struck a Hamas "command and control centre" in the area of Jabalia, without specifying the target. Israeli strikes continued on Friday, with the civil defence agency reporting that at least five people — a couple and their three children — had been killed when their tent was struck in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Yunis. Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that the deceased woman had been pregnant. Since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18 after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire with Hamas, at least 1,978 people have been killed in Gaza, bringing the overall death toll of the war to 51,355, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures. During the attack, Palestinian militants also abducted 251 people to Gaza, 58 of whom are still held captive there, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. Israeli officials and the military say consistent military pressure in Gaza is required to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
Nahar Net
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Gaza rescuers say 25 killed in Israeli air strikes
by Naharnet Newsdesk 22 April 2025, 11:26 Gaza's civil defence agency said that a spate of Israeli air strikes since dawn on Tuesday killed at least 25 people across the Hamas-run territory. Israel resumed an intense air and ground offensive on Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting in the besieged Palestinian territory. "The total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes since dawn today has risen to 25," Mohammad Mughayyir, a senior official with the civil defence agency told AFP. Nine people were killed and several others wounded when an air strike hit a house in the centre of the southern city of Khan Yunis, he said. Six more remained trapped under the rubble, he said. Another nine were killed in separate strikes on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Mughayyir said, including five when a tent housing displaced people was hit. Five others were killed in a strike on a home belonging to the Bakr family in the Al-Shati refugee camp of Gaza City, he said, while two died in a similar attack in the southern city of Rafah. More than 10 houses were also destroyed in the strikes, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal earlier told AFP, adding that an air strike also destroyed bulldozers and equipment belonging to the Jabalia municipality. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the latest strikes. Since the ceasefire with Hamas collapsed, the military has carried out an intense assault on Gaza. Gaza's civil defense agency on Monday accused the Israeli military of carrying out "summary executions" in the killing of 15 rescue workers last month, rejecting the findings of an internal probe by the army. At least 1,864 people have been killed in Gaza since the military resumed its offensive, bringing the total death toll since the war erupted to at least 51,240, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, that ignited the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
