Israel kills 143 in a day as Gaza death toll passes 53,000
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/16/breaking-down-a-deadly-week-in-gaza-as-israel-kills-hundreds
More than 19 months into its war on Gaza, Israel shows few signs that it is relenting. The last week has shown the opposite, an intensification of violence across the besieged Palestinian territory, leaving hundreds dead, and hundreds of thousands terrified of what comes next.
According to figures compiled by Al Jazeera, at least 370 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since Sunday. The violence has been particularly deadly in the second half of the week, with medical sources reporting the killing of at least 100 Palestinians on Friday, and 143 on Thursday. Many of those killed have been women and children.
These are some of the worst single-day death tolls since the beginning of the war in October 2023.
Israel’s military intensifies its carnage in Gaza
Smoke rises after an Israeli attack on the Tal az-Zaatar neighbourhood in Gaza City on May 15
An Israeli convoy manoeuvres inside destroyed Gaza on May 15
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in an Israeli air strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on May 14
Displaced Palestinians bombed
The Israeli military has killed 16 Palestinians in strikes on northern Gaza over the past few hours, following a series of deadly attacks across the Strip on Thursday that killed at least 136 people. Some of the deadliest attacks targeted the southern city of Khan Younis.
The Israeli military has also issued forced evacuation orders to displaced Palestinians in the north of the territory as it continues to block aid from entering Gaza for more than two months.
Killing of 45 children in Gaza air strikes met with ‘indifference’, not ‘shock’: UNICEF
The head of the UN Children’s Fund, Catherine Russell, said the world should be shocked by the killing of 45 children in Israeli air strikes in just two days. Instead, the slaughter of children in Gaza is “largely met with indifference”.
Palestinians carry the bodies of the two children, Moath and Moataz al-Bayouk, who were killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 15
