Israeli airstrikes have killed not less than 65 individuals in Gaza previously 24 hours, together with ladies, kids and two journalists, the Palestinian well being authority stated on Monday, almost per week after Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas.
Palestinians in Gaza have once more been fleeing for his or her lives after Israel launched its new offensive within the territory, which began on Tuesday final week with a wave of airstrikes that killed about 700 individuals, principally civilians, ending two months of relative calm, in line with the Palestinian well being ministry within the territory run by Hamas.
Hossam Shabat, a journalist for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses advised the community that his automobile was focused within the jap a part of Beit Lahiya.
Earlier within the day, Mohammad Mansour, a reporter who labored for Palestine At the moment, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
In response to witnesses, Mansour was focused “in his house alongside his wife and his son” with none prior warning.
There was no rapid remark by the Israel Protection Forces.
At the very least 208 journalists and media employees have been killed in Israeli assaults since October 2023, in line with the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate.
Palestinian medics say an Israeli strike hit a faculty the place displaced individuals have been sheltering within the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing not less than 4 individuals, together with a baby.
One other 18 individuals have been wounded in Monday’s strike within the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp, in line with al-Awda hospital, which acquired the casualties. Three different hospitals had earlier reported 25 deaths from Israeli strikes in a single day and into Monday.
There was no rapid remark from the Israeli navy, which says it solely targets militants and tries to keep away from harming civilians.
In a separate Israeli airstrike on Sunday night time, the Nasser hospital, the biggest medical facility in southern Gaza, was hit, killing 5 individuals, together with a Hamas political chief.
The Israeli navy stated its assault adopted intensive intelligence and used exact munitions to minimise hurt on the website.
Hamas confirmed {that a} member of its political workplace, Ismail Barhoum, had been killed. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, confirmed the goal was Barhoum.
Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV stated Barhoum was being handled on the hospital for wounds sustained in a earlier assault. One other Hamas chief, Salah al-Bardawil, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis on Sunday. Each Bardawil and Barhoum have been members of the 19-member political workplace, the group’s decision-making physique, 11 of whom have been killed because the begin of the warfare in late 2023, in line with Hamas sources.
Sunday’s strike on Nasser hospital was the second on a well being facility in Gaza in three days. On Friday, Israel blew up central Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, Gaza’s solely specialised most cancers therapy hospital, which had already been severely broken by Israeli airstrikes since October 2023.
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a volunteer in a Medical Help for Palestinians (MAP) crew working at Nasser hospital, stated medics within the emergency division have been awaiting casualties when an enormous blast shook the constructing.
“Everybody ran out to see what happened until one of my colleagues screamed ‘They hit surgery,’ Haj-Hassan said in a voice message. “There was so much smoke and fire. I ran across to the building next door, where the paediatric ICU is, just to grab my portable ultrasounds and a few things, knowing that we’d be receiving casualties.
“As I walked out, I could see the second floor of the building on fire.”
Steve Cutts, the chief govt of MAP, stated the assault “demonstrates once again that nowhere is safe in Gaza”.
Cutts stated a 16-year-old boy recovering from earlier surgical procedure was additionally killed and not less than eight individuals, together with medical workers, have been injured.
The Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross stated its workplace within the southern Gaza Strip was broken by an explosive projectile on Monday, including that no workers have been wounded.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stated the goal of the warfare was to destroy Hamas as a navy and governing entity. The ambition of the brand new marketing campaign was to drive the group to surrender the remaining hostages, he stated final week.
On Monday, Hamas’s armed wing launched a video exhibiting two Israeli hostages held in Gaza because the Palestinian militants’ assault on Israel on 7 October 2023.
The footage, which lasts a bit of over three minutes and whose precise recording date couldn’t be verified, reveals two males sitting on the ground talking in Hebrew to a hostage who has since been launched, asking him to recount his experiences in captivity to be able to velocity up their launch.
In the meantime, officers say Egypt has launched a brand new proposal to attempt to get the Gaza ceasefire again on monitor.
In response to the plan, Hamas would launch 5 residing hostages, together with an American-Israeli, in return for Israel permitting humanitarian support into the Gaza Strip and a weeks-long pause within the preventing, an Egyptian official stated Monday. Israel would additionally launch a whole bunch of Palestinian prisoners.
A Hamas official stated the group had “responded positively” to the proposal, with out elaborating.
The Gaza Well being Ministry stated not less than 50,082 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and one other 113,408 have been wounded, because the starting of the warfare, triggered by an assault by Hamas militants in Israel in October 2023 wherein they killed about 1,200 individuals, principally civilians, and took 251 hostages.
