Palestinians evacuate after the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for a number of colleges and a hospital in Gaza Metropolis’s Rimal neighborhood, Wednesday, Might 14, 2025.
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — A number of airstrikes hit Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis in a single day into Thursday, killing greater than 50 individuals in a second consecutive evening of heavy bombing.
The strikes come as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Center East, visiting Gulf states however not Israel. There had been widespread hope that Trump’s regional go to might usher in a ceasefire deal or renewal of humanitarian support to Gaza. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.
An Related Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the town in a single day into Thursday, and noticed quite a few our bodies taken to the morgue within the metropolis’s Nasser Hospital. Some our bodies arrived in items, with some physique baggage containing the stays of a number of individuals. The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 individuals had been killed.
The useless included a journalist working for Qatari tv community Al Araby TV, the community introduced on social media, saying Hasan Samour had been killed together with 11 members of his household in one of many strikes in Khan Younis.
The Israeli navy had no instant touch upon the strikes.
It was the second evening of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed not less than 70 individuals, together with nearly two dozen youngsters.
Israel has vowed to escalate the warIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier within the week to push forward with a promised escalation of pressure in Israel’s battle within the Gaza Strip to pursue his purpose of destroying the Hamas militant group, which governs Gaza.
In feedback launched by Netanyahu’s workplace Tuesday, the prime minister mentioned Israeli forces have been days away from coming into Gaza “with nice power to finish the mission … It means destroying Hamas.”
Worldwide rights group Human Rights Watch mentioned Thursday that Israel’s said plan of seizing Gaza and displacing lots of of 1000’s of individuals “inches nearer to extermination,” and known as on the worldwide group to talk out in opposition to it.
The battle started when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 individuals in an Oct. 7, 2023 intrusion into southern Israel. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed practically 53,000 Palestinians, lots of them ladies and kids, in keeping with Gaza’s Well being Ministry, which doesn’t say what number of have been combatants. Virtually 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18, the ministry mentioned.
Hamas nonetheless holds 58 of the roughly 250 hostages it took throughout its Oct. 7 assault on Israel, with 23 believed to nonetheless be alive, though Israeli authorities have expressed concern for the standing of three of these.
Gaza’s solely hospital offering most cancers remedies out of service as a consequence of Israeli strikesGaza’s Well being Ministry mentioned Thursday that Israeli strikes have rendered the European Hospital Khan Younis — the one remaining facility offering most cancers remedies in Gaza — out of service as a consequence of extreme harm to its infrastructure and entry roads.
The shutdown halts all specialised remedies, together with cardiac surgical procedures and most cancers care, the ministry added.
The Israeli navy performed two airstrikes in opposition to the European Hospital Tuesday, saying it was concentrating on a Hamas command heart beneath the power. Six individuals have been killed within the strike.
European Hospital director Imad al-Hout advised AP there had been 200 sufferers within the hospital on the time of Tuesday’s strikes. They have been all progressively evacuated, with the final 90 transferred to different hospitals, together with Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, on Wednesday morning. Efforts have been now underway to coordinate repairs to the power, he added.
Israeli blockade of support into Gaza in its third monthIsrael’s offensive has obliterated huge swathes of Gaza’s city panorama and displaced 90% of the inhabitants, usually a number of occasions. It halted the entry of all support, together with meals and medicine, into the territory on March 2, and worldwide meals safety specialists have warned that Gaza will doubtless fall into famine if Israel would not raise its blockade and cease its navy marketing campaign.
Practically half 1,000,000 Palestinians are dealing with doable hunger whereas 1 million others can barely get sufficient meals, in keeping with findings by the Built-in Meals Safety Part Classification, a number one worldwide authority on the severity of starvation crises.
Human Rights Watch mentioned Israel’s plan to grab Gaza and stay there, coupled with the “systematic destruction” of civilian infrastructure and the block on all imports into the territory, have been trigger for signatories to the Genocide Conference to behave to forestall Israel’s strikes.
Israel vehemently denies accusations that it’s committing genocide in Gaza.
The group additionally known as on Hamas to free the hostages it nonetheless holds.
