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 as US President Donald Trump Visit the Middle East and visited Gulf States, but not Israel. 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 with a heavy bomb attack afterwards Air strikes Wednesday At least 70 people killed in the north and south gaza, 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.

Grief for the dead in Khan Younis

In the Nasser Hospital, Safaa al-Najar, her face cried with blood and cried when the landing bodies were brought to her by two of her children: 1 1/2-year-old Motaz al-Bayyok and 1 1/2 month old Moaz al-Bayyok.

The family was caught in the nights. All five other children from Al-Najjar, which are enough at the age of 3 to 12, were injured while her husband was in the intensive care unit.

One of her sons, the 11-year-old Yusuf, who was strongly connected, screamed from grief when his younger sibling was separated to show his face.

“I gave them dinner and put them to sleep as always, it was a normal day. Suddenly I don't know what happened, the world went upside down,” she said when others tried to comfort her. “I don't know, I don't know … What is your fault? What is your fault?”

Outside the hospital, the mourners gathered to pray when the dead in rows were loaded onto a truck in white corpse bags in order to be recorded for the funeral.

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 on Tuesday by Netanyahus office, The Prime Minister said that the Israeli forces were days from entering the Gaza Strip “with great strength to complete the mission … it means destroying Hamas.”

The International Rights Group Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that the planned plan of Israel to confiscate Gaza and to suppress hundreds of thousands of people “inches closer to the annihilation”, asked the international community to speak against them.

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 then 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 Palestinians in northern Gaza were near Israeli bombing on Thursday in a desperate attempt to get food, as well as the auxiliary blockade of Israel its third month.

In the charity kitchen, which was set up on ruins in Beit Lahia, dozens of Palestinians stood in a crowded line and pressed and kept empty pots and plastic containers high in the air in the hope of receiving vegetable soup.

In order to empty Abed, who has been sold with 20 family members, was waiting in line from 9 a.m. and went home with empty hands for the second time in a row when the number of people exceeded the available food.

“I have a 3-year-old child who cries all day because he wants to eat … we want you to stop the war and let in food,” called Abed and shouted when she held her empty pot on the camera.

Israel's offensive has exhausted Parts of the urban landscape of Gaza and repressed 90% of the population, often several times. It stopped the entry of all help, including food and medication, to the area on March 2 and international experts in nutritional security warned This gaza will probably fall into famine if Israel does not raise His blockade and stop his military campaign.

Are almost half a million Palestinians possible hunger While 1 million others can hardly get enough food, according to the knowledge of the integrated classification of the nutritional security phase, it says a leading international authority for the severity of hunger crises.

The spokesman for the Israeli government, David Mencer, denied on Thursday that there was a lack of nutrition in Gaza and claimed that Hamas was “holding on to it … You have to open food for people.”

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

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

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Goldenberg reported by Tel Aviv, Israel.