Second night of heavy Israeli bombing kills dozens in Gaza

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: May 15, 2025 5:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Israeli subject strikes killed astatine slightest 60 radical successful the Gaza Strip connected Thursday, Palestinian medics said, arsenic the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire woody and U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Middle East.

Most of the victims, including women and children, were killed successful Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza successful airstrikes that deed homes and tents, they said.

The dormant included section writer Hassan Samour, who worked for the Hamas-run Aqsa vigor presumption and was killed on with 11 household members erstwhile their location was struck, the medics said.

There was nary contiguous remark from the Israeli military, which has intensified its violative successful Gaza arsenic it tries to eradicate Hamas successful retaliation for the deadly attacks the Palestinian militant radical carried retired connected Israel successful 2023.

Israel carried retired the latest strikes connected the time Palestinians commemorate the "Naqba," oregon catastrophe, erstwhile hundreds of thousands of radical fled oregon were forced to fly their hometowns and villages during the 1948 Middle East warfare that gave commencement to the authorities of Israel.

With astir of the 2.3 cardinal radical successful Gaza internally displaced, immoderate residents of the tiny enclave accidental suffering is greater present than astatine the clip of the Nakba.

"What we are experiencing present is adjacent worse than the Nakba of 1948," said Ahmed Hamad, a Palestinian successful Gaza City who has been displaced aggregate times.

"The information is, we unrecorded successful a changeless authorities of unit and displacement. Wherever we go, we look attacks. Death surrounds america everywhere."

Escalating violence

Palestinian wellness officials accidental the Israeli attacks person escalated since Trump started a sojourn connected Tuesday to the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that galore Palestinians had hoped helium would usage to propulsion for a truce.

The latest strikes travel attacks connected Gaza connected Wednesday that killed astatine slightest 80 people, section wellness officials said.

Little has travel of caller indirect ceasefire talks betwixt Israel and Hamas led by Trump's envoys and Qatar and Egyptian mediators successful Doha.

Hamas says it is acceptable to escaped each the remaining hostages it is holding successful Gaza successful instrumentality for an extremity to the war, portion Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prefers interim truces, saying the warfare tin lone extremity erstwhile Hamas is eradicated.

Israel invaded Gaza successful retaliation for the Hamas-led onslaught connected confederate Israeli communities connected October 7, 2023, successful which astir 1,200 radical were killed and 251 were taken arsenic hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's subject run has killed much than 52,900 Palestinians, according to section wellness officials. It has near Gaza connected the brink of famine, assistance groups and planetary agencies say.

A U.S.-backed humanitarian enactment volition commencement enactment successful Gaza by the extremity of May nether an assistance organisation plan, but has asked Israel to fto the United Nations and others resume deliveries to Palestinians present until it is acceptable up.

No humanitarian assistance has been delivered to Gaza since March 2, and a planetary hunger show has warned that fractional a cardinal radical look starvation successful Gaza, astir a 4th of the population.

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