Israeli strikes widespread in the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people overnight and Tuesday afternoon, the health authorities managed by Hamas said, while the land forces moved on to the first stages of the “Gideon’s carts” trollee offensive, through which Israel seeks to “conquer” the Palestinian serpente.
Palestinian health authorities have said that a number of strikes were targeting civil infrastructure, including a school that has become Shelter and several family houses.
The FDI, on the other hand, announced that during the last day, the Air Force had struck more than 100 “terrorist targets”, in particular an arms depot, observation posts and buildings used by terrorist groups – including one used by Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the storage of weapons.
According to the Ministry of Health Gaza managed by Hamas, which does not make the difference between combatants and civilians, at least 22 people were killed on Tuesday when two strikes targeted a family home and a school that shelters displaced people in northern Gaza. He said that more than half of the people killed were women and children, although the figures cannot be checked independently.
The FDI told AFP that it “hit a Hamas terrorist who operated on a command and control center” in the school complex.
In images of Gaza City, men, women and children could be seen through the rubble of the school in the Daraj district where they had sheltered and where charred clothes and a red teddy bear were among the dispersed effects.
The Palestinian women of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City after an Israeli air strike in a school, serving as a refuge for displaced people, May 20, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa / AFP)
At the neighboring hospital of Al-Ahli, the men made prayers on bodies wrapped in white shrouds, before bringing them to their graves.
“What is our fault?” What is children’s fault? What is the fault of the women we found on the stairs with their hair and their torn and burned clothes? ” said Omar Ahel, who was absent from school. “By God, it is injustice.”
Elsewhere, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said that a strike in the central city of Gaza de Deir al-Balah had killed 13 people, and another in a service station in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp killed 15.
It was said that Nasser Hospital had killed 10 people. Outside the hospital, Younis Abu Sahloul said that his brother, her sister-in-law and their four children had been killed in a strike that hit the camp of displaced people without previous warning.
A spokesperson for the Civil Defense Agency led by Gaza said dozens of people had been injured.
The young Palestinians sit next to the burned cereal bags while they check the damage after an Israeli air strike hit the Mussa Bin Nusseir Unrwa, serving as a refuge for people who left their homes in the besieged Palestinian territory, in the Daraj district of Gaza City on May 20, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa / AFP)
According to Israeli officials, the new offensive launched over the weekend will see the FDI “conquer” Gaza, shave the vast majority of buildings and keep the territory in the foreseeable future; attack Hamas and prevent it from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies; And move the Palestinians from the north of the strip to its south.
The manager of Hamas Angels Gazans with comments on the toll
Even while the conduct of Israel in Gaza has aroused growing criticism from the international community, a senior Hamas official has made Gazan residents angry after rejecting the high number of deaths as “material calculations”, in a recent interview.
Speaking of Qatar, where he is located, the senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said that the number of births in the Gaza Strip – around 50,000 since October 7, 2023, exceeded the number of victims.
This, he said, demonstrated that heavy losses did not reflect the broader image of the conflict with Israel.
“The martyrs (killed in the war)-the uterus of the women of Gaza will give birth to twice as much,” he said. “This is the price that must be paid. If we thought in material terms, we would not be able to keep our land. ”
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri. (AP / Hatem Moussa)
The interview was initially disseminated as a podcast at the end of March, but has resurfaced in recent days in the midst of intensified Israeli strikes, and caused a wave of reactions from Gazan civilians, which considered the profoundly disrespectful comments towards the tens of thousands of people killed.
Many quickly pointed out that Abu Zuhri does not reside in Gaza and, as such, is disconnected from the impact of war.
“A man outside the band says that all those who have been killed can simply be replaced. He is someone of deception beyond reason – he is not one of us,” said a Gazan, in a recorded response.
The indignation also spread in the streets during an anti-hamas demonstration in Khan Younis on Monday, where demonstrators could be heard singing: “Oh Abu Zuhri, you are shame, even the child wants to live.”
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More than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in the past eight days, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which says that more than 53,000 people in the strip have been killed or are presumed to be dead in the war so far.
Tolls cannot be checked and do not make the difference between civilians and combatants. Israel said he was trying to minimize civilian deaths and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza civilians as human shields, fighting in civil areas, including houses, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Israel says that he killed some 20,000 combat fighters from January, and 1,600 terrorists inside the country during October 7, 2023, Assault, when thousands of terrorists led by Hamas killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
