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Gulf Today
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Today
Family, including three children, killed in latest Gaza strike
Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City, all members of single family according to relatives. "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 told the media. The strikes came "without warning and without having done anything wrong," added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. AFP images from the scene showed mourners, some of them weeping, gathering alongside five white shrouds of different sizes. "Five martyrs and wounded in an (Israeli) occupation air strike on a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood" of Gaza City," civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told the media. The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18 ending a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. 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 retaliation has killed at least 52,787 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable. Agence France-Presse
Qatar Tribune
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Qatar Tribune
Children among 21 killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza amid aid blockade
Agencies Gaza At least 21 people, including several children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn amid a months-long Israeli blockade that has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn coastal enclave. Four Palestinians were killed and others were wounded Saturday evening after an Israeli airstrike targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. Earlier, Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli warplanes bombed a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing five members of the Tlaib family. '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 told the AFP news agency. The strikes came 'without warning and without having done anything wrong', added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. In parallel, a drone attack on Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood left six people dead and one more in the Sheikh Radwan area of the city where Israel bombed an apartment belonging to the Zaqout family. Further south, Wafa said Israeli gunboats opened 'heavy fire' on the shores of Rafah, killing a man identified as Mohammed Saeed al-Bardawil. Two more civilians were injured in an attack on the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, west of Rafah. In the past 24 hours, at least 23 Palestinians have been killed and 124 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave's Health Ministry. The attacks came amid Israel's continuing refusal to allow vital supplies into Gaza since March 2, leaving the enclave's 2.3 million residents dependent on a dwindling number of charity kitchens, which have been shutting down in recent days as food runs out. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary said: 'There's barely food … We're talking about bakeries not operating, we're talking about zero distribution points and we're talking about only a few hot meal kitchens still operating.' Khoudary said people queueing for hours would often leave empty-handed, with remaining kitchens stretching out food that would previously have fed 100 to serve up to 2,000 people. 'We're seeing more people dying, we're seeing more children dying due to malnutrition and the lack of food. But it's not only the lack of food, it's also the lack of medical supplies, it's the lack of fuel, cooking gas and it's the lack of everything,' she said. Among the charities shuttering operations, the United States-based World Central Kitchen said on Wednesday that it had been forced to close down because it no longer had supplies to bake bread or cook meals. The United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs appealed for the blockade to be lifted. 'Children are starving, and dying. Community kitchens are shutting down. Clean water is running out,' it said on Friday in a post on X.
Observer
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Observer
Israeli strike hits displaced Gazans, kills a whole family
GAZA: Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City, all members of single family according to relatives. "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. Images from the scene showed mourners, some of them weeping, gathering alongside five white shrouds of different sizes. "Five martyrs and wounded in an (Israeli) occupation air strike on a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood" of Gaza City, civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said. The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18 ending a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. The war in Gaza was triggered by October 2023 attack, which killed 1,218 people on the Israeli side, according to official figures. Israeli retaliation has killed at least 52,787 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable. On Friday, Israel would not be involved in food distribution under a US-led plan for the Gaza Strip but would provide "necessary military security", Washington's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said. Despite imposing a now two-month-long blockade of aid on Gaza, which it says is aimed at putting pressure on Palestinian militants Hamas, Israel has asserted there is no humanitarian crisis in the territory. "The Israelis are going to be involved in providing necessary military security, because it is a war zone, but they will not be involved in the distribution of the food, or even in the bringing of the food into Gaza," Huckabee told reporters in Tel Aviv. The US-led initiative, which the State Department said on Thursday would be led by a new foundation to distribute aid, has been met with international criticism as it appears to sideline the United Nations and existing aid organisations, and would overhaul current humanitarian structures in Gaza. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said the plan risks "militarising aid". Huckabee called upon the United Nations, "every NGO" and "every government" to take part. "We invite people who have been concerned about it to join in this process," he said, expressing hope that the plan could be put into action "very soon". In Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, crowds of Palestinians jostled for position, holding cooking pots, plastic bowls and serving dishes aloft in hopes of getting a hot meal at a distribution point before it closed over a lack of supplies. — AFP
L'Orient-Le Jour
10-05-2025
- Politics
- L'Orient-Le Jour
Gaza rescuers say five dead in Israel strike
Gaza's civil defense agency said Saturday that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City, all members of a single family, according to relatives. "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 told AFP. The strikes came "without warning and without having done anything wrong," added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. AFP images from the scene showed mourners, some of them weeping, gathering alongside five white shrouds of different sizes. "Five martyrs and wounded in an [Israeli] occupation air strike on a tent in the Sabra neighborhood" of Gaza City, civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike. 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 retaliation has killed at least 52,787 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the territory's health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable.
Al-Ahram Weekly
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Israeli strike on Gaza tent kills five from same family: Rescuers, relatives - War on Gaza
An Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City killed five Palestinians on Saturday, all from the same family, according to civil defence agency and relatives. "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 told AFP. The strikes came "without warning and without having done anything wrong," added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children's maternal grandfather. AFP images from the scene showed mourners, some of them weeping, gathering alongside five white shrouds of different sizes. "Five martyrs and wounded in an (Israeli) occupation air strike on a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood" of Gaza City, civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. The death toll since Israel resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza on 18 March, ending a two-month ceasefire, has risen to 2,701, with 7,432 others wounded. Since 7 October 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 52,810 Palestinians in the territory and injured nearly 120,000 more, most of them women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry figures considered reliable by the United Nations. *This story was edited by Ahram Online. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
