Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (AP) – Several air strikes struck the city in the south of Khan Younis of Gaza during the night on Thursday, killing more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing, while another air strike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen deaths, according to the authorities.
The strikes come as US President Donald Trump Visit the Middle East, visiting the Gulf States but not Israel. There had been a general hope that Trump’s regional visit could inaugurate a cease-fire contract or a renewal of humanitarian aid in Gaza. An Israeli blockade in the territory is now in its third month.
A cameraman Associated Press in Khan Younis counted 10 air strikes in the city during the night on Thursday and saw many bodies taken to the Nasser Hospital in the city. It took time to identify certain bodies due to the extent of their injuries. The hospital morgue confirmed that 54 people had been killed.
The dead included a journalist working for the Qatari Al Arabby TV television network, announced the network on social networks, saying that Hasan Samour had been killed with 11 family members in one of Khan Younis strikes.
The Israeli army has made no immediate comments on strikes.
It was the second night of heavy bombing after Air strikes Wednesday On the north and the south, Gaza killed at least 70 people, including nearly two dozen children.
Another strike in Jabaliya in northern Gaza struck a complex comprising a mosque and a small medical clinic, killing 13 people, said that Civil Defense, a first respondent agency operating under the Gaza government, managed by Hamas.
Mourning for the dead in Khan Younis
At Nasser Hospital, Safaa Al-Najjar, his blood stained with blood, cried while the bodies wrapped in shroud two of his children were brought to him: Motaz al-Bayyok, 1 1/2, and Moaz al-Bayyok, 1 month old.
The family was taken during night air strikes. The other five children from Al-Najjar, for 3 to 12 years, were injured, while her husband was in intensive care.
One of his sons, Yusuf, 11, his strongly bandaged head, cried out of sorrow while the shroud of his young brother was separated to show his face.
“I gave them dinner and I fell asleep as usual, it was a normal day. Suddenly, I don’t know what happened, the world has done upside down, “she said when others were trying to comfort it. “I don’t know, I don’t know … what’s their fault?” What is their fault? “
Outside the hospital, mourning people gathered to pray while the dead, arranged in rows in white body bags, were loaded on a truck to take for burial.
Israel has promised to degenerate the war
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised earlier in the week to advance a promised climbing in the War of Israel in the Gaza Strip to pursue his objective of destroying the Hamas militant group, which governs Gaza.
In Comments published Tuesday by the Netanyahu office, The Prime Minister said the Israeli forces were a few days to enter Gaza “with great strength to finish the mission … This means destroying Hamas.”
The International Human Rights Watch rights group said on Thursday that Israel’s plan said Gaza and move hundreds of thousands of people “closer to extermination” and called on the international community to denounce.
The war began when activists led by Hamas killed 1,200 people in an intrusion on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel. The Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, including many women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say how many fighters. Nearly 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18 said the ministry.
The Ministry of Health said Thursday morning that bodies of 82 people killed in Israeli strikes, including 54 in Khan Younis, had been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours. The overall number of Palestinian death increased to 53,010, with 119,998 people injured.
Hamas still holds 58 of the approximately 250 hostages it took during its October 7 attack against Israel, 23 which would still be alive, although the Israeli authorities have worried about the status of three of them.
The only Gaza hospital providing cancer treatments due to Israeli strikes
The Gaza Ministry of Health said Thursday that Israeli strikes had made European hospital Khan Younis – the only establishment remaining providing cancer treatments in Gaza – out of service due to serious damage to its infrastructure and access roads.
The closure interrupts all specialized treatments, including heart surgeries and cancer care, added the ministry.
The Israeli army carried out two air strikes against the European hospital on Tuesday, saying that it was aimed at a Hamas command center under the establishment. Six people were killed in the strike.
The director of the European Hospital Imad al-Hout told AP that there had been 200 patients at the hospital at the time of Tuesday strikes. They have all been gradually evacuated, the last 90 are transferred to other hospitals, including the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Wednesday morning. Efforts were now underway to coordinate the repairs of the establishment, he added.
Israeli help blockade in Gaza in its third month
Israel’s offensive has vast Standers of the Urban Landscape of Gaza and moved 90% of the population, often several times. He interrupted the entry of all help, including food and medicines, on the territory on March 2, and international food security experts warn that Gaza will probably fall in famine if Israel does not raise its blockade and stop its military campaign.
Almost half a million Palestinians are Faced with a possible famine While 1 million others can barely obtain enough food, according to the results of the integrated classification of the food security phase, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.
Human Rights Watch said that the plan of Israel to seize Gaza and stay there, associated with the “systematic destruction” of the civil infrastructure and the block of all imports in the territory, were signatories to the Convention of Genocide to act to prevent the movements of Israel.
Israel vehemently denies the accusations that he commits a genocide in Gaza.
The group also called on Hamas to release the hostages it still has.
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Goldenberg reported to Tel Aviv, Israel.
