At least 72 Gazans have been killed so far Saturday in new Israeli attacks.
GAZA CITY (—), 16/05/2025.- Internally displaced Palestinians move along Al Rashid road in the west of Gaza City on, 16 May 2025. More than 51,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, since Israel launched a military campaign in the strip in response to a cross-border attack led by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on 07 October 2023, in which about 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 250 taken hostage. EFE/EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
May 17, 2025 Hour: 2:33 pm
At least 72 Gazans have died since early Saturday morning in new Israeli attacks launched across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
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Of the total number of fatalities, at least 35 have died in the north of the Strip, where troops are concentrating their bombardments, 19 in the center, and another 18 in the south, according to the same sources.
This is the fourth consecutive day in which the highest death toll has been recorded since Israel broke the ceasefire in the Strip on March 18.
Local sources says that in recent hours, Israeli troops have advanced toward Deir Al Balah, in the center of the Strip, where Gazans have been spreading the leaflets previously dropped by the Army on their social media. “The Army is coming,” the leaflet reads.
In addition, the Gaza Strip government denounced that the army bombed a food aid distribution warehouse in the Deir al-Balah area, killing five Gazans and injuring several others who were waiting to receive humanitarian aid.
“With this, the number of food and humanitarian aid distribution centers attacked by the Israeli occupation since the beginning of the genocidal war has risen to 68 centers and community kitchens,” the statement said.
The Israeli ban on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, imposed more than two months ago, is also putting the few hospitals that remain operational to the limit.
This Saturday, Raafat Ali Al Majdalawi, director general of the Al Awda Health and Community Association, which manages several hospitals and primary health centers in the Strip, warned that these services run the risk of “being completely interrupted in the coming days.”
