[Regnum] At least 76 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. This was reported on May 24 by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera.
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"The death toll continues to rise as attacks continue," the report said.
According to the channel, the Israeli army (IDF) struck a house in Khan Yunis, killing seven children, among others. A residential building in Jabaliya was also hit. The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on May 18, the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began conducting a large-scale ground operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported 96 dead and more than 140 injured after the Israeli attack in the morning that same day. The ministry noted that civilian targets were hit. The ministry also added that after the resumption of shelling by Israeli troops in Gaza, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed and about 9,000 were injured.
In turn, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Israel would allow the import of a “basic amount” of food products into the Gaza Strip to prevent the threat of famine in the enclave. In addition, Netanyahu’s office added that Israel intends to work to deprive Hamas of the ability to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid so that it does not end up in the hands of terrorists.
The IDF also struck the Palestinian semi-exclave in early May. According to Al Jazeera, at least 66 people were killed in an Israeli air force attack on May 7, and 63 Palestinians the day before.
Gazans say 9 children of doctor couple killed in Israeli strike; IDF looking into report
[IsraelTimes] Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip
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..a regional Iranian catspaw,...-run civil defense agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Younis had killed nine children of a pair of married doctors, with the Israeli army saying it was looking into the reports.
According to Paleostinian media, the strike hit a home in Khan Younis, killing nine children of the same family, all under the age of 12. The father of the family and one of the children, aged 10, were seriously maimed. The mother, Alaa Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time of the strike.
In response to the reports, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it carried out a strike in Khan Younis, saying it targeted several suspects identified at a building near where ground troops were operating.
"The Khan Younis area is a dangerous combat zone that the IDF ordered civilians to evacuate for their safety before the start of the operation," the military said, referring to a warning on Monday.
"The claims about harm to uninvolved [civilians] are being looked into," it added.
Israel has stepped up its campaign in Gaza in recent days, drawing international criticism as well as calls to allow in more supplies after it partially eased a total blockade on aid imposed on March 2.
Hamas’s civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal said the agency had retrieved "the bodies of nine child deaders, some of them charred, from the home of Dr Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, all of whom were their children."
He added that Hamdi al-Najjar and another son, Adam, were also seriously maimed in the strike, and that the family was taken to Nasser Hospital. A medical source at the hospital gave Adam’s age as 10 years old.
Bassal told AFP that Israeli strikes since the early hours had killed at least 15 people across Gaza as of Saturday afternoon. He said the dead included a couple killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of Khan Younis.
To the west of the city, at least five people were killed by a dronezap on a crowd of people that had gathered to wait for aid trucks, he alleged.
In a statement, the military said that over the past day the air force had struck more than 100 targets across the territory, targeting terror operatives and sites. The military says it takes steps to minimize harm to civilians, while adding that terror groups operate from within Gaza’s civilian population.
The IDF said Saturday that all standing army infantry and armored brigades were now deployed to the Strip, as Israel prepared to further intensify its offensive against Hamas.
In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the enclave, it said.
The IDF had previously announced that five divisions were operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.
Despite the easing of the blockade, distribution has also been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, an umbrella network representing Paleostinian aid groups said.
"They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger," the network said in a statement.
Israel imposed the blockade in early March as hostage-ceasefire talks broke down, accusing Hamas of stealing aid meant for civilians.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday, which it said reflected the dire conditions facing Gazooks.
Israel has announced that a new system, sponsored by the United States and run by private contractors, will soon begin operations from four distribution centers in the south of Gaza, but many details of how the system will work remain unclear.
The UN has already said it will not work with the new system, which it says will leave aid distribution conditional on Israel’s political and military aims.
Israel says its forces will only provide security for the centers and will not distribute aid themselves.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, criticized Israel on Friday, saying that the UN had brought in 500 to 600 trucks per day on average during a six-week ceasefire that broke down in March, about five times higher than current rates.
"No one should be surprised, let alone shocked at scenes of precious aid looted, stolen or ’lost’," he wrote on X, adding that "the people of Gaza have been starved" for more than 11 weeks.
Footage published in Arabic media on Friday showed hundreds of Paleostinians crowding around a bakery in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp as bread was being distributed for the first time in weeks.
As the aid has begun to trickle in, the IDF has continued the intensified ground and air operation launched last week, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would end with Israel taking full control of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said 83 trucks carrying flour, food, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical equipment entered the Gaza Strip from the Kerem Shalom crossing point on Friday, for a total of 388 since Monday, when the blockade was eased.
However, an umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups provided a separate figure, saying only 119 aid trucks have passed the Kerem Shalom crossing point and into Gaza. The discrepancy was likely because many of the trucks were not picked up by the aid groups from the Palestinian side of the crossing for distribution.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday.
With most of Gaza’s 2 million population squeezed into an ever-narrowing zone on the coast and in the area around the southern city of Khan Younis by Israel’s military operation, international pressure to get aid in quickly has ratcheted up.
The military said Friday that it had struck over 75 targets in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, including terror operatives, rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, and other infrastructure.
On Friday, Hamas-run Palestinian medical services said at least 25 people had been killed in the strikes. Another Hamas official told AFP that at least 71 people were killed. Neither of the figures could be independently confirmed.
In Gaza’s north, Al-Awda hospital reported Friday that three of its staff were injured “after Israeli quadcopter drones dropped bombs” on the facility. The Hamas-run civil defense agency later said it had successfully contained a fire at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the military said Friday that ground troops had killed several operatives across Gaza and destroyed other Hamas sites.
IDF says air force struck over 100 targets in Gaza over past day
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Air Force struck over 100 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military says.
The targets included a launcher used to fire a rocket at southern Israel yesterday afternoon. Other targets included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the IDF says.
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