Israeli
attacks in Gaza have killed 39 people and injured 105 in last 24 hours, the
enclave’s Health Ministry says.
Palestinians mourn as they carry the body of a child, killed in an
Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, on April 23,
2025 [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]
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Palestinians have succumbed to their burn wounds after an Israeli strike hit
their shelter in Gaza City overnight, raising the death toll there to at least
13, with reports of six people remaining under the rubble.
The
school-turned-shelter was one of several sites hit in Gaza on Wednesday. Gaza’s
civil defence said four more bodies were pulled from two nearby homes.
Rescue teams
know at least six more victims remain trapped beneath the rubble in Gaza City,
but they are unable to reach them, reported Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud from the
city.
“It’s not just
their inability to get to the area,” he said. “They lack the heavy equipment
needed to remove the rubble and recover the bodies.”
In total, 39
people were killed and 105 injured across the territory in the past 24 hours,
the Health Ministry reported.
The latest
attacks came as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas to
release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.
Hamas, which
governs Gaza and rivals Abbas’s PA, has said it would release all captives in
exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal and a permanent end to the war – but has
rejected Israel’s demand to disarm, calling it a “red line”.
New ceasefire
push?
Despite a
monthlong deadlock in ceasefire negotiations following Israel’s resumption of
attacks on March 18, Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin
Jassim Al Thani says Doha remains engaged in talks to end the war.
A Hamas
delegation arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss a new truce proposal.
Meanwhile,
Israel is continuing to block aid, including food and medicine, from entering
Gaza for an eighth straight week.
In unusually
strong criticism, France, Germany and the United Kingdom called Israel’s
blockade “intolerable”.
“Humanitarian
aid must never be used as a political tool and Palestinian territory must not
be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change. Israel is bound under
international law to allow the unhindered passage of humanitarian aid,” a joint
European statement said.
Since the war
resumed, at least 1,928 Palestinians have been killed, pushing the total death
toll above 51,300, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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