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At least 25 reported killed in Gaza

Politiko 2025-04-20 16:48:36

At least 25 reported killed in Gaza

The Gaza Civil Protection Agency said that at least 25 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on April 20 across the Gaza Strip, including women and children.

Israel resumed air and ground attacks on Gaza on March 18, resuming fighting after a two-month ceasefire that halted the 15-month war between Israel and Hamas — a Palestinian group declared a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

"Since dawn today, Israeli airstrikes have killed 20 people and injured dozens more, including women and children across the Gaza Strip," Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil protection agency, told AFP.

In a separate announcement, the agency also reported five people killed by Israeli drone strikes in Rafah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged the day before to continue the war and release the hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas.

"We are at a critical stage of the campaign, and at this point we need patience and determination to win," Netanyahu said in a statement, rejecting calls from Palestinian radicals to end the war and withdraw troops from Gaza.

Since Israel resumed the offensive last month, at least 1,827 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in Hamas-led territory. The total number of people killed in the Gaza war has reached 51,201, most of them civilians, according to the same ministry - figures that the United Nations considers credible.

The war erupted after Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel in October 2023, which resulted in the killing of close to 1,200 people and the kidnapping of close to 250 others by Israel. Of the kidnapped, 58 people are still being held in Gaza, including 34 whom the Israeli military believes are dead./REL

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