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Almost 100 people who were killed in the Israeli attack on Gaza

Rushdi Abualouf, Cairo; Yolande Knell, Jerusalem; Mallory Moench, London

BBC News

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A mourning reacts during the funeral of the Palestinians, who were killed in Israeli strikes in the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia

Almost 100 people, including children, were killed on a large-scale Israeli soil, air and sea attack, which was started in North Gaza early Friday, said the civil defense and the residents led by Hamas.

Civil defense said that at least nine houses and tents were bombed overnight overnight and they had received dozens of calls from people.

Witnesses also reported about smoke bombs, artillery screens and tanks in Beit Lahia.

The military of Israel said that it was “operated on and reducing terrorist infrastructures in Northern Gaza and” removed several terrorists “last day.

This is the biggest attack on North Gaza since Israel resumed its offensive in March.

Basheer al-Ghandour, who fled to Jabalia after the attack to Jabalia, said that the BBC people slept when they suddenly hit “intensive bombing” overnight.

“There were all sides – air strikes and warships. My brother's house collapsed. There were 25 people inside,” he said.

He said 11 people were injured and five were killed, including his nieces at the age of five and 18 and a 15-year-old nephew. He and other tried to free relatives from the rubble.

“My brother's wife is still under the rubble – we didn't manage to save them. We had to flee because of the intensive bombing,” he said.

“We didn't take anything with us – no furniture, no food, no flour. We even went in bare feet.”

Another survivor, Yousif Salem, said reporters that he and his three children were “only escaping death”.

“An air raid hit our neighbors' house – none of them survived,” he said.

He said artillery shells met near their house when they were trapped inside. When he tried to go, a Quadcopter drone opened the fire, he said.

He made a second attempt under heavy shelling, he said. All streets were blocked, but they managed to find a side street.

“We only fled from Israeli tanks for a few minutes, which circled the area,” he said.

According to the residents, the attack began with smoke bomb closures, followed by intensive artillery allocation from nearby Israeli positions.

The tanks then stepped towards the alsalate district in western Beit Lahia.

Witnesses reported that Israeli armored vehicles surrounded a school that protected hundreds of displaced persons.

In the early Friday, Israeli aircraft fell leaflets in several areas in northern Gaza that call up the residents of evacuating the areas immediately, and the fears of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) increased its military operation in one of the most densely populated regions of Gaza.

The evacuation commands triggered panic for families who have been sold several times since the beginning of the war. Many have no other anywhere.

“I swear, I don't know where we are going,” said Sana Marouf, who fled with her family in a donkey car in Gaza town.

“We have no mattresses, blankets, food or water.”

She said she saw people “torn” overnight. “It was a black night. They relentlessly bombed us.”

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The Palestinians set off with things when they fled to Israeli air raids on May 16, after Israeli air strikes are in the northern Gaza Strip in the Gaza Strip

The attack in the north -Gaza takes place after more than 120 people, mainly in the south, were killed in the south on Thursday.

The IDF said on Friday that last day there were more than 150 “terrorist goals” in the entire Gaza strip, including tank defense rockets, military structures and centers in which groups planned to “carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops”.

In South Gaza, the IDF said that it dismantled the Hamas structures and waves and killed “several terrorists” from which Israel had planned to plant an explosive device.

While the mighty overnight stays on Friday overnight and have been exceeded by the floor troops west of Beit Lahia, this does not yet look as if Israel's threatened military offensive are threatened military offensive.

The Israeli government has undertaken to intensify the operations in Gaza and to resume the strip for an indefinite period if Hamas did not accept a proposal for a temporary ceasefire and the return of the remaining hostages by President Donald Trump, which was completed on Friday.

While there were no signs of a breakthrough in Doha with the negotiation teams, the local media say that Arabic mediators have more time to give talks a chance.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas agreed in January when Israel put air strikes on Gaza strips in March.

Israel also implemented total blockade for humanitarian aid, including food, which was largely convicted by the United Nations and the United Nations and Arab countries.

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said last month that the blockade was a “main pressure lever” to secure the victory over Hamas and get all hostages.

There is growing evidence that the 10-week blockade of Israel has more and more harmful humanitarian effects. Aid organizations and residents say that people in Gaza are now starving.

In a recently reported report, the entire population of Gaza-Rund 2.1 million human bei is a critical risk of famine.

The Israeli government insisted on the fact that there is no lack of food in Gaza and that the “real crisis is the Hamas looting and the sale of help”.

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The Palestinians have difficulty bringing their food rations on May 15 in front of a crowded sales center in Beit Lahia

Israel and the United States have proposed to allow and distribute help from private companies – a plan that was rejected by the United Nations.

The deteriorating situation in Gaza got this week from the United States.

Trump entered his home flight from the Middle East and said that the United States should “help the Palestinians” and recognizes “many people starving”.

On Thursday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the Trump government was “worried” by the humanitarian situation.

Israel started a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Since then, at least 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the territory.

In Gaza, fifty -eight hostages will still take place, which are assumed that they are alive.

Additional reporting by Alice Cuddy in Jerusalem

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