Over 100 more Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza
- Last updated: May 15, 2025 | 22:46
Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed on Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza.
Gaza's civil defence agency said the death toll from Israeli bombardment since dawn on Thursday had risen to 103.
AFPTV footage from the aftermath of a strike on Deir Al Balah in the centre of the territory showed flattened buildings and piles of concrete rubble. "We pray for this war to end, and we appeal to all international institutions to end the war because enough is enough," said Gaza resident Maher Ghanem, his arm in a sling.
The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said 2,876 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 53,010.
In the occupied West Bank, meanwhile, raids were ongoing and roads blocked after Israel's military chief vowed to find the perpetrators of an attack that killed a pregnant Israeli woman.
An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital. It took time to identify some of the bodies due to the extent of their injuries. The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 people had been killed.
The dead included a journalist working for Qatari television network Al Araby TV, the network announced on social media, saying Hasan Samour had been killed along with 11 members of his family in one of the strikes in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children.
International rights group Human Rights Watch said Thursday that Israel’s stated plan of seizing Gaza and displacing hundreds of thousands of people "inches closer to extermination,” and called on the international community to speak out against it.
Gaza's Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli strikes have rendered the European Hospital Khan Younis - the only remaining facility providing cancer treatments in Gaza - out of service due to severe damage to its infrastructure and access roads.
The shutdown halts all specialised treatments, including cardiac surgeries and cancer care, the ministry added.
The Israeli military conducted two airstrikes against the European Hospital Tuesday, saying it was targeting a Hamas command center beneath the facility. Six people were killed in the strike.
European Hospital director Imad al-Hout told AP there had been 200 patients in the hospital at the time of Tuesday’s strikes. They were all gradually evacuated, with the last 90 transferred to other hospitals, including Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, on Wednesday morning. Efforts were now underway to coordinate repairs to the facility, he added.
Agencies