Rescuers say Israeli strikes kill 22 across Gaza

Smoke rises over the southern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2025 as seen from Southern Israel. The Israeli military has said its expanding ground operations in Gaza as part of what they’re calling ‘Operation Gideon’s Chariots,’ aimed at securing the release of hostages still held in Gaza, as well as “the defeat of Hamas.”
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Rescuers in Gaza said Israeli air strikes killed at least 22 people across the Palestinian territory on Monday (May 19, 2025) as the military pressed an expanded offensive.

There were heavy strikes in and around the main southern city of Khan Yunis, where civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said 11 people were killed and several others wounded, along with one more killed in nearby Abasan.

Five people were killed in an air strike near a market west of the northern town of Jabaliya, he said.

In Nuseirat, in the centre of Gaza, three members of the same family were killed in an air strike on their tent, while two people were killed by another strike on a tent in Gaza City, in the north.

Mr. Bassal said there were also reports of deaths at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, but the bodies could not be retrieved due to ongoing shelling.

The ministry of health in Hamas-run Gaza has accused the Israeli army of laying siege to the facility, “effectively forcing the hospital out of service”.

The Israeli army said Monday (May 19, 2025) that it was keeping up its newly intensified campaign, adding it was “operating throughout the Gaza Strip”.