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South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- General
- South China Morning Post
Israel to Hamas: accept Gaza hostage deal or be ‘annihilated'
Israel on Friday said Hamas must accept a hostage deal in Gaza or 'be annihilated', as US President Donald Trump announced that a ceasefire agreement was 'very close'. It came amid dire conditions on the ground, with the UN warning that Gaza's entire population was at risk of famine. Defence Minister Israel Katz said Hamas must agree to a ceasefire proposal presented by US envoy Steve Witkoff or be destroyed, after the Palestinian militant group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands. 'The Hamas murderers will now be forced to choose: accept the terms of the 'Witkoff Deal' for the release of the hostages – or be annihilated.' Israel has repeatedly said that the destruction of Hamas was a key aim of the war. Palestinians wait in long queues to receive pots of food distributed by charitable organizations in Nuseirat Palestinian refugee camp. Photo: dpa Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war in Gaza have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough, with Israel resuming operations in March following a short-lived truce.
The Independent
26-05-2025
- 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.
SBS Australia
25-05-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
Gaza rescue official, journalist killed as Israel seizes 77 per cent of the strip
Colonel Ashraf Abu Nar, the director of Civil Defence Operations in Gaza, and his wife, were killed in an Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp. Source: Getty / Anadolu Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Jabalia, and Nuseirat reportedly killed at least 30 people on Sunday. Hassan Abu Warda, a journalist, and Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior rescue service official, were killed along with family. Israel's ground invasion of Gaza has seized 77 per cent of the strip, according to the Gaza media office. Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 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 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. 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. In a 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. Israel's military said in a statement that chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited troops in Khan Younis on Sunday, telling them that "this is not an endless war" and that Hamas has 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," Zamir was cited as saying. Later on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that two of its staff - Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal — had been killed in a strike on a house in Khan Younis on Saturday. "Their killing points to the intolerable civilian death toll in Gaza. The ICRC reiterates its urgent call for a ceasefire and for the respect and protection of civilians, including medical, humanitarian relief, and civil defence personnel," the ICRC statement added. 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. 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. Israel launched the assault on Gaza after the Hamas militant cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people by Israeli tallies with 251 hostages abducted into Gaza.
Jordan Times
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
Gaza rescuers say six killed in pre-dawn Israeli strikes
A Palestinian man holding a child looks on as children sit inside a house targeted in an Israeli strike at the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on May 24, 2025 (AFP photo) GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Rescuers in Gaza said six people were killed and several more wounded in pre-dawn Israeli air strikes in the north and centre of the Palestinian territory on Sunday. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said five people were killed in a strike on a home in Jabalia, in the person was killed in a drone strike on tents sheltering displaced people west of Nuseirat in central Gaza, he Israeli military has stepped up its Gaza operations in recent days in what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Saturday afternoon, the military said it had carried out strikes on more than 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past health ministry said Saturday that at least 3,747 people had been killed in the territory since a ceasefire collapsed on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 53,901, mostly October 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Militants also took 251 hostages, 57 of whom remain in Gaza including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
South China Morning Post
25-05-2025
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Israeli strikes kill 30 in Gaza, including rescue service official and local journalist
Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians across Gaza 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 Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in central Gaza, medical staff 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, doctors said. The Hamas-run 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 Younis on Sunday, telling them that 'this is not an endless war' and that Hamas has 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,' Zamir was cited as saying.
