Hospital says 54 people who were killed air raids in the city of Southern Gaza overnight, says Hospital

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (AP) – Several air raids met the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza overnight to Thursday and killed more than 50 people in a row in a second night in a row, while another air raid in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people.

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. It took time to identify some bodies due to their injuries. 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.

Another strike in Jabaliya in the north of Gaza met a complex, including a mosque and a small medical clinic that killed 13 people, said the civil defense, a first aid agency that is operated under the Gaza government.

Israel has sworn to escalate the war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used to swore a week to drive a promised escalation of violence in the Israeli 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 more than 53,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, which does not say how many fighters were. Almost 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18, the ministry said.

The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday morning that the corpses killed in Israeli strikes, including the 54 in Khan Younis, had been brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours. The total number of the Palestinian fatalities rose to 53.010, with another 119,998 people wounded.

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.

The only Gaza hospital that provides cancer treatments due to Israeli strikes

The Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that Israeli strikes had made the European Hospital Khan Younis – the only remaining facility in Gaza – in Gaza Strip, since the infrastructure and access roads were badly damaged.

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.

Israeli auxiliary blockade in Gaza in the third month

The offensive of Israel has wiped out large parts of the urban landscape of Gazas and displaced 90% of the population, often 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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Goldenberg reported by Tel Aviv, Israel.