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Israel keeps wiping out entire families in Gaza

The recent attacks in Gaza are a reminder of the opening weeks of the war in terms of their intensity, scale and the aftermath of them. Whole families are being wiped out from the civil registry by Israeli strikes.

Attacks overnight lit up the skies across the Gaza Strip from Khan Younis all the way to the northern part of the Strip as explosions rocked residential homes. Drones, the sky predators, chase people from one place to another in the central area.

In Khan Younis alone, 17 people have been killed in attacks in the central and western parts of the southern city in strikes targeting entire families.

One family lost 11 members in a single attack, while another one lost four in another strike by fighter jets. A woman was killed in the eastern part of Khan Younis by a flying shrapnel in a drone attack on a group of people. A baby was killed in a tent in the al-Mawasi evacuation zone.

In eastern Gaza City, emergency workers are trying recover more bodies stuck under the rubble after a strike near the Shujayea neighbourhood. Nine members of a family had been reported killed in the attack in question and more are still under the rubble.


People carry the small bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at a funeral in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, on May 3


Three babies among 11 killed in Israel attack on Khan Younis

Gaza’s civil defence agency says an overnight Israeli attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people, including three young children.

Agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal reported 11 Palestinians were killed after the bombardment of the al-Bayram family home in the Khan Younis camp in southern Gaza at 3am (00:00 GMT).

Eight of the dead were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl both one-year-olds, and a month-old baby, Bassal said. One rescuer carried the lifeless body of an infant from the wreckage, video from the scene showed.


A boy holds the body of his younger sister who was killed in an Israeli air raid


Gaza death toll rises

At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and 275 others wounded in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Over the past two days, seven bodies were also recovered from the rubble from previous Israeli attacks on the territory, the ministry added.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 52,495 people and wounded 118,366 since October 7, 2023, it said. The toll since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18 has reached 2,396 killed and 6,325 wounded, the ministry added.