By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck a media tent exterior a hospital within the Gaza Strip early Monday, killing two folks, together with an area reporter, and wounding six different journalists, medics mentioned. The Israeli army mentioned the strike focused a person whom it recognized as a Hamas fighter posing as a journalist.
Thirty-two different folks had been killed in a number of strikes round Gaza, together with 19 girls and kids and an emergency room physician, in line with hospital officers.
Video footage confirmed folks carrying the physique of a lifeless little lady, her face coated with blood, after one strike hit close to a charity kitchen distributing sizzling meals for displaced folks in tent camps exterior the southern metropolis of Khan Younis. Such kitchens have been drawing greater crowds of Palestinians as a result of different sources of meals are operating out, greater than a month after Israeli minimize off all meals, gas, drugs and different provides for Gaza’s inhabitants of greater than 2 million folks.
The World Meals Program has warned that its meals shares to maintain the kitchens going may run out by subsequent week. It needed to cease distributing packages of meals staples on to households final week due to an absence of provides, spokesperson Abeer Etefa mentioned Monday. All of the bakeries it ran have additionally shut down, ending the principle supply of bread for tons of of 1000’s of individuals.
Israel has carried out waves of strikes throughout Gaza, killing tons of of individuals, and floor forces have carved out new army zones because it ended its ceasefire with Hamas final month. Israel says it’s pressuring Hamas to free its remaining hostages, disarm and go away the territory. In doing so, it deserted its prior settlement underneath the ceasefire to barter for the hostages’ launch. Hamas has been designated as a terrorist group by america, Canada and the European Union.
Palestinians mourn their kinfolk who had been killed by an Israeli airstrike, on the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photograph/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Palestinians mourn their kinfolk who had been killed by an Israeli airstrike, on the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photograph/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Strikes hit journalists and houses
The strike exterior Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis about 2 a.m. set the media tent ablaze, killing Yousef al-Faqawi, a reporter for the Palestine As we speak information web site, and one other man, in line with hospital officers.
The army mentioned the strike focused Hassan Eslaiah, who it mentioned was a Hamas fighter who took half within the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel that ignited the conflict. Eslaiah was amongst six journalists who had been wounded within the strike, in line with the hospital.
Eslaiah had sometimes contributed photos to The Related Press and different worldwide media shops as a contract journalist, together with on Oct. 7. The AP has not labored with him for over a yr.
Israel additionally struck tents on the sting of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital within the central metropolis of Deir al-Balah, wounding three folks, in line with the hospital.
Hundreds of individuals have sheltered in tents arrange inside hospital compounds all through the 18-month conflict, assuming Israel can be much less more likely to goal them. Nonetheless, Israel has struck a number of hospitals and has carried out damaging raids on many, accusing Hamas of utilizing them for army functions, allegations denied by hospital workers.
A strike that hit a boulevard in Gaza Metropolis killed an emergency room physician, the Gaza Well being Ministry mentioned. Israel’s marketing campaign has killed greater than 1,000 well being staff and at the least 173 journalists, in line with the U.N. and the Committee to Defend Journalists.
Different strikes in a single day and into the day Monday lowered homes to rubble in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah.
Imad Maghari mentioned the blast that hit his neighbors in Deir al-Balah at 2 a.m. was like “an earthquake,” adopted by the screams of girls and kids. He mentioned one neighbor misplaced 5 members of the family and one other a younger boy. “I don’t know what hazard he poses. He’s 7 years previous and was additionally killed,” Maghari mentioned.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah mentioned it obtained the our bodies of 11 folks, together with at the least three girls and three kids. Khan Youni’s Nasser Hospital reported 20 our bodies, together with eight girls and 5 kids.
Israel’s army offensive in retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault has killed greater than 50,000 Palestinians, principally girls and kids, in line with the well being ministry, whose depend doesn’t distinguish between fighters and civilians. The offensive has destroyed huge areas of Gaza and displaced round 90% of its inhabitants. Israel says it tries to keep away from civilian casualties and blames Hamas for his or her deaths as a result of it operates among the many inhabitants.
Within the Oct. 7 assault, terrorists killed about 1,200 folks, principally civilians, and kidnapped 251 folks. They’re nonetheless holding 59 captives — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — after many of the relaxation had been launched in ceasefires or different offers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that after Hamas is defeated, Israel will management safety in Gaza and can implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle a lot of Gaza’s inhabitants to different nations by means of what the Israeli chief refers to as “voluntary emigration.”
Palestinians say they don’t wish to go away their homeland, and human rights specialists have warned that implementing the Trump proposal would seemingly quantity to mass expulsion in violation of worldwide regulation.
Protests in Israel as Netanyahu meets Trump
Netanyahu will meet with Trump in Washington on Monday to debate Gaza and different points.
Dozens of protesters gathered exterior Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem to name for an settlement to launch the captives. Many worry that Netanyahu’s choice to renew the preventing has put the remaining hostages in grave hazard and hope Trump will help dealer one other deal.
“Now the second of reality has come,” mentioned Varda Ben Baruch, grandmother of Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander, addressing Netanyahu. “You’re in america and it’s important to sit there with President Trump and shut a deal so that everybody will probably be launched residence.”
Magdy reported from Cairo.
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