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05-01-2025
GAZA STRIP: A Palestinian family of 11 including eight children are among at least 28 Palestinians killed as the Israeli military’s intensified attacks on the war-battered Gaza Strip enter a third day.
Amnesty International says Israel’s detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of the “genocidal intent” in Israel’s broader attempts to “annihilate” Gaza’s healthcare sector.
As talks resume in Qatar, senior Hamas official Basem Naim says the Palestinian group is serious about a ceasefire deal, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and returning the enclave’s population to their homes.
UN human rights Chief Volker Turk says the world body recorded 136 Israeli attacks on 27 health facilities in Gaza, causing “significant death and destruction”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,658 Palestinians and wounded 108,583 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
Seven children were among 11 family members killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza City earlier.
According to the civil defence agency, the attack at dawn on the house of the al-Ghoul family killed 11 people and more victims are buried in the debris.
“The home, which housed several displaced people, was completely destroyed,” said civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal.
“It was a two-story building and several people are still under the rubble,” he added, saying Israeli drones “also fired on ambulance staff” who tried to treat the wounded.
The Israeli military has killed a Palestinian teenager and injured nine people in the Balata refugee camp as Israeli forces step up their assault across the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Muhammad Medhat Amin Amer, 18, was shot dead during the overnight incursion in the camp on the outskirts of Nablus city.
Nine people are in “critical condition” after being wounded in the raid, which began on Friday night and triggered violent confrontations, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
Israeli soldiers entered the camp from the Awarta checkpoint, deploying “snipers on the rooftops of surrounding buildings”, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
In a statement, the Israeli military said troops fired on “terrorists” who “hurled explosives, Molotov cocktails and rocks and shot fireworks at the forces”.
Media reports three Palestinians have been killed and others injured in Israeli bombardment of the Tuffah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City.
Five Palestinians have been killed and more wounded in an Israeli attack on a group of people in Jabalia refugee camp, also in the north.
Israeli attacks have been frequent, with dozens killed since dawn and the northern Strip still under siege.
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah has held up for more than a month despite its terms being broken.
The deal struck on November 27 to halt the war required Hezbollah to immediately lay down its arms in southern Lebanon and gave Israel 60 days to withdraw its forces there and hand over control to the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers.
So far, Israel has withdrawn from just two of the dozens of towns it holds in southern Lebanon. And it has continued striking what it says are bases belonging to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, which was severely diminished during nearly 14 months of war, has threatened to resume fighting if Israel does not fully withdraw its forces by the 60-day deadline. (Int’l News Desk)
