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Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, at least 140 killed in Gaza

Politiko 2025-06-18 15:58:13
Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, at least 140 killed in Gaza
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Israeli strikes have killed at least 140 people across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Wednesday. At least 40 of the total killed over the past day were killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Wednesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said.

Among them are Palestinians killed waiting to receive food aid, as has happened almost daily in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted its total blockade on the territory. Medical workers said separate airstrikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighborhood and in central and northern Gaza City killed at least 21 people.

Meanwhile, five others were killed in an airstrike on a camp in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza. Fourteen more people were killed by Israeli fire on crowds of displaced Palestinians waiting for trucks carrying aid brought by the United Nations along the Salahudin Road in central Gaza, according to medics.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was investigating reports of deaths of people waiting for food aid. Regarding the other attacks, the IDF said it was "acting to destroy Hamas' military capabilities" and was taking "possible measures to limit civilian casualties."

Hamas is a militant group designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. On Tuesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said 397 Palestinians trying to receive food aid had been killed and more than 3,000 wounded since aid deliveries resumed in late May.

Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October 2023, is being overlooked as attention has shifted to the conflict between Israel and Iran that began last week.

"They are massacring us in Gaza, day and night, but the attention has shifted to the Israel-Iran war. There is very little news about Gaza these days," said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.

"Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs, dies of hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and end up killed, with their blood staining the sacks of flour they thought they had earned," he told Reuters via a messaging app.

The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking nearly 250 hostages. Israel says 58 hostages remain in Gaza, although about 35 are believed to be dead. Since then, Israel's war has killed more than 55,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials./ REL

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