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Dozens of air raids in the city of Southern Gaza are killed in overnight, it says in the hospital: NPR

The Palestinians evacuate after the Israeli army published an evacuation warning for several schools and a hospital in the Rimalviertel of the city of Gaza on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – several air raids hit the southern city of Khan Younis in Gazas overnight to Thursday and killed more than 50 people with a heavy bomb attack in a second night in a row.

The strikes come when US President Donald Trump visited the Middle East and not visits Gulf States. There was widespread hope that Trump's regional visit could initiate a ceasefire or a renewal of humanitarian aid in Gaza Strip. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in the third month.

An associated press Cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 air raids in the city overnight until Thursday and saw numerous corpses that were brought to the corpse in the city's Nasser Hospital. Some bodies arrived in pieces, with some corpse bags containing the remains of several people. The hospital's corpse hall confirmed that 54 people had been killed.

One of the dead included a journalist who worked for the Katari television transmitter Al Araby TV. The network announced on social media.

The Israeli military had no direct statement on the strikes.

It was the second night of the heavy bomb attack after at least 70 people were killed on Wednesday on Wednesday on Wednesday in the north and southern Gazast, including almost two dozen children.

Israel vowed to escalate the Warisraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the early week, to promise a promised escalation of violence in Israel's war in the Gaza Strip to pursue his goal of destroying the militant group of Hamas, the Gaza rules.

In comments published by Netanyahus office on Tuesday, the prime minister said that the Israeli armed forces were “away from entering Gaza days” with great strength to complete the mission … it means to destroy Hamas. “

The International Rights Group Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel's plan to confiscate Gaza and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, “centimeters closer to the annihilation” and asked the international community to speak against it.

The war began when the militants led by Hamas killed in an penetration of 7,200 people in an penetration from October 7, 2023 in South Israel. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliation measures killed almost 53,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, in which the fighter was not. Almost 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18, the ministry said.

Hamas still holds 58 of the approximately 250 hostages that they initiated on Israel during their attack on October 7. 23 is still alive, although the Israeli authorities have expressed concern about the status of three of them.

On Thursday, the only Gaza hospital that offers cancer treatments outside of the service due to the Ministry of Health in Israeli strike gaza said that Israeli strikes khan Younis – the only remaining facility in Gaza – had been available – due to serious damage to the infrastructure and the access road.

The switch -off adopts all specialized treatments, including heart surgery and cancer supply, the ministry added.

The Israeli military carried out two air strikes against the European hospital on Tuesday and said it was aimed at a Hamas command center under the facility. Six people were killed in the strike.

Imad Al-Hout, hospital director of the European Hospital, said AP that 200 patients were in the hospital at the time of the strikes on Tuesday. They were all gradually evacuated, the last 90 on Wednesday morning were moved to other hospitals, including the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Now efforts have been made to coordinate repairs to the facility, he added.

The Israeli blockade of the aids in Gaza in its third monthly ice rink has wiped out large parts of the city landscape of Gazas and has sold 90% of the population several times. The entry of all help, including food and medication, on March 2, and international experts have warned that Gaza will probably fall into famine if Israel does not raise its blockade and stops its military campaign.

Almost half a million Palestinians are faced with a possible hunger, while 1 million others can hardly get enough food, as the knowledge of the integrated classification of nutritional security phase, a leading international authority for the severity of hunger crises are exposed.

Human Rights Watch said the plan of Israel to confiscate and stay there, combined with the “systematic destruction” of civil infrastructure and block for all imports into the area, were the reason for signatories for the genocide convention to prevent the movements of Israel.

Israel vehemently denies allegations that there is a genocide in the Gaza.

The group also asked Hamas to free the hostages that they still did.

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