Israeli strikes about Gaza kill 103 people, says Civil Defense

Since dawn, at least 103 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-Runned Civil Defense Office.

Fifty-six people, including women and children, were killed when houses and tents that donated displaced families were bombed at night in the southern city of Khan Younis, said the local Nasser hospital. Local journalists said his corridors were full of victims and that the mortuary was full.

A spokesperson for the civil defense later reported deadly strikes in the northern city of Jabalia, including an attack on a health clinic and prayer room in the refugee camp of Jabalia that he said to killed 13 people.

There was no immediate remark from the Israeli army.

But it has its bombing intensifying for what it has said, his Hamas hunters and infrastructure prior to a planned expansion of his ground offensive in Gaza.

It comes when US President Donald Trump visits the region and indirect negotiations on a new release of cease -the fire and hostages between Hamas and Israel continue.

The streets of Khan Younis were filled on Thursday morning with funeral processes and grieving families, after some residents said the deadliest set of air strikes in the city since Israel resumed his offensive almost two months ago.

One video that was shared by a local activist showed doctors who lay dozens of bodies on the ground at a local cemetery. An imam stood near the leading of prayers for hundreds of mourning people gathered behind him in ordered rows.

Other images showed that men who carried the bodies of two small children wrapped in with blood -stained villains outside the Nasser Hospital, who published a list of the names of the 56 people who were killed according to doctors.

Safaa Al-Bayouk, a 42-year-old mother of six, said that the children were her sons Muath, who was only six weeks old, and Moataz, who was a year and four months.

“I gave them out for dinner and they went to sleep. It was a normal day … (then) turned the world upside down,” she told Reuters News Agency.

Reem al-Zanaty, 13, said that her uncle’s uncle’s family, including her 12-year-old cousin Mensna, was killed when their two houses were bombed.

“We felt or heard nothing until we woke up with rubble on us,” she said. “The civil defense did not come. I will honestly tell you that we have pulled ourselves (out). My father helped us.”

Medici also said that the local journalist Hassan Samour, who worked for Hamas-Runned Al-AQSA Radio, was killed together with 11 members of his family when their house in the Eastern Bani Sueila district was beaten.

The Civil Defense Agency also said on Thursday morning that the first responders had found the bodies of four people after Israeli strikes in the northern city of Beit Lahia and two others in the central city of Deir al-Balah.

Later spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal reported that an Israeli strike in a house in the city of Jabalia had killed all five members of the Shihab family.

Another 13 people were killed when the Al-Tawbah Health Clinic and Prayer Hall in the Al-Fakhourri area of ​​the Jabalia refugee camp was bombed, he said.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that 15 people were killed, including 11 children.

A graphic video that was reportedly placed online from the scene showed two bodies covered with rubble in a street next to a poorly damaged building.

Amir Selha, a 43-year-old resident of North Gaza, told AFP News Agency: “Tank shells are the clock and the area is full of people and tents.”

On Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people on the territory, including 59 in the city of Jabalia and the refugee camp, according to hospitals and the civil defense.

The Israeli army said that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hunters in the north of the territory hit Tuesday evening. It had warned residents of Jabalia and adjacent areas to evacuate on Tuesday after rockets were launched in Israel.

Israeli evacuation -Orders published On Wednesday afternoon also caused panic among residents of a busy area of ​​Gaza City, in the north.

The Israeli army said that a hospital, a university and various schools that protected displaced people in the Rimal district, had become “terrorist strongholds” and that it would quickly attack them with “intense power”.

Separately, an organization supported by the US said that it would work in Gaza within two weeks as part of a newly criticized the US-Israeli aid distribution plan.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had asked Israel to have the UN and others resumed the deliveries until it was set up.

For 10 weeks, Israel has not allowed any help or other supplies in Gaza and have warned aid organizations for massive hunger at the 2.1 million population.

Israel imposed the blockade on March 2 and resumed his offensive against Hamas two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire. It said that Hamas wanted to put pressure to release the remaining 58 hostages, of whom a maximum of 23 is supposed to live.

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the cross -border attack of the group on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were hosted.

Since then, at least 53,010 people have been killed in Gaza, including 2,876 since the Israeli offensive has been resumed, according to the Hamas-Runned Health Minister of the territory.