Gaza civil defence says 15 killed in Israeli strikes

In this body seize from a video launched by Gaza Civil Defense, staff gather human stays after an Israeli strike on a house in Khan Younis killed 9 of a health care provider’s ten kids whereas she was at work, in line with Ahmad al-Farra, head of the pediatric division at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 24, 2025.
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Gaza’s civil defence company mentioned Israeli strikes killed a minimum of 15 folks on Saturday (May 24, 2025) throughout the Palestinian territory, the place Israel has ramped up its navy offensive in current days.

Civil defence company spokesman Mahmud Bassal instructed AFP the useless included a pair who had been killed with their two younger kids in a pre-dawn strike on a home within the Amal quarter of the southern metropolis of Khan Yunis.

To the west of the town, a minimum of 5 folks had been killed by a drone strike on a crowd of those who had gathered to attend for support vehicles, he mentioned.

At Khan Yunis’s Nasser Hospital, tearful mourners gathered round white-shrouded our bodies outdoors.

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“Suddenly, a missile from an F-16 destroyed your entire home, and all of them had been civilians — my sister, her husband and their kids,” mentioned Wissam Al-Madhoun.

“We discovered them mendacity on the street. What did this baby do to (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu?”

The Israeli navy mentioned it was unable to touch upon particular person strikes with out their “exact geographical coordinates”.

In a press release, the navy mentioned that over the previous day the air drive had struck greater than 100 targets throughout the territory, together with members of “terrorist organisations within the Gaza Strip, navy buildings, underground routes and extra terrorist infrastructure”.

Israel resumed operations in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire.

Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned Saturday that a minimum of 3,747 folks had been killed within the territory since then, taking the conflict’s general toll to 53,901, principally civilians.

‘Cruellest section’

Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel that triggered the conflict resulted within the deaths of 1,218 folks, principally civilians, in line with an AFP tally primarily based on official figures.

Militants additionally took 251 hostages, 57 of whom stay in Gaza together with 34 the Israeli navy says are useless.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres mentioned on Friday that Palestinians had been enduring “the cruellest section” of the conflict in Gaza, the place a prolonged Israeli blockade has led to widespread shortages of meals and medication.

Limited support deliveries to the Gaza Strip restarted on Monday for the primary time since March 2, amid mounting condemnation of the Israeli blockade.

The World Food Programme mentioned 15 of its vehicles had been looted late Thursday night time, calling on Israel “to get far better volumes of meals help into Gaza sooner”.

“Hunger, desperation, and nervousness over whether or not extra meals support is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity,” it mentioned.

The Gaza City municipality, in the meantime, warned Saturday of “a possible large-scale water disaster” as a consequence of an absence of provides wanted for pressing repairs.

It mentioned injury from the conflict had “affected nearly all of Gaza’s water infrastructure, leaving massive parts of the inhabitants weak to extreme water shortages”.

It added that temperatures had been rising and demand was anticipated to extend.