PALESTINE

Sat 17 May 2025 10:50 pm - Jerusalem Time

80 Palestinians killed since dawn: Two brothers killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Khan Yunis.

Eighty citizens were killed and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Saturday, including 34 dead in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.


In the latest raid, brothers Saleh and Duaa Suleiman Baraka were killed, and others were injured, in two raids launched by Israeli occupation aircraft on a residential tower in Hamad City, northwest of Khan Yunis, and on a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.


Earlier, seven civilians were killed, including three in Khan Yunis. One was shot by Israeli drones, and two others were killed in shelling targeting a gathering of civilians. Four others were killed in the Tel al-Zaatar neighborhood of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, when a house was bombed.


The occupation forces bombed an aid warehouse in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, killing 10 civilians, including 10-day-old infant Qusay Abu Libdeh, and wounding others. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.


Medical and local sources reported that the occupation forces killed more than 200 citizens, forcibly displaced approximately 300,000 others from the northern Gaza Strip to Gaza City, and completely or partially destroyed nearly 1,000 housing units within 48 hours, as part of the war of extermination being waged against civilians.


The same sources indicated that "approximately 140 martyrs remain under the rubble, due to the occupation army's deliberate prevention of ambulance and rescue crews from reaching the bombing sites, in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law."


On Saturday afternoon, the Israeli occupation forces dropped leaflets on areas in the Gaza Strip, threatening to expand its 20-month-long genocidal war in the Strip and launch a new ground invasion.


Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has been committing genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip, leaving approximately 174,000 citizens dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.

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80 Palestinians killed since dawn: Two brothers killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Khan Yunis.

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