GAZA, May 8, 2025 – At least 106 Palestinians were killed and 367 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to medical sources.
Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has risen to 52,760 fatalities, with an additional 119,264 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.
According to the same sources, the death toll since Israel’s resumption of the genocide on March 18 after a two-month truce has also climbed to 2,651, in addition to 7,223 others injured.
GAZA – The death toll from Israeli warplanes targeting two schools in Al-Bureij refugee camp and Gaza City, since last night and until dawn Wednesday, has risen to 49, the majority of whom were children, women, and the elderly.
WAFA correspondents, citing medical sources, reported that the death toll from the two massacres committed by the occupation forces in the bombing of Abu Hamisa School, which houses displaced persons in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, last night, has risen to 33 Palestinian civilians, with nearly 73 reported wounded. The school was targeted twice.
The death toll from the bombing of Al-Karama School east of Gaza City this morning also rose to 16 civilians and dozens wounded.
People search for survivors in a crater at the site of an Israeli strike at a UNRWA school housing displaced Palestinians at the Bureij camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on May 6, 2025. (AFP)
GAZA CITY – Gaza’s civil defense agency said Wednesday that Israeli strikes on a school sheltering displaced people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory killed 31 people and wounded dozens, with Israel saying it had targeted Hamas militants.
Gaza civil defense media officer Ahmad Radwan told AFP that a total of 31 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli strikes “on a school sheltering displaced persons” in the Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military meanwhile said in a statement that its forces had struck a “Hamas command and control center in the central Gaza Strip” which was used “to store weapons.”
The strikes came as Israel drew international condemnation on Tuesday over its plans for an expanded Gaza offensive, as the country’s far-right finance minister called for the Palestinian territory to be “destroyed.”
Nearly all of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once during the war, sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
On Tuesday, Hamas dismissed as pointless ceasefire talks with Israel, accusing it of waging a “hunger war” on Gaza.
Israel’s military resumed its offensive on the Gaza Strip in March, ending a two-month truce that saw a surge in aid into the territory and the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
GAZA – Six civilians were killed on Monday evening in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a vehicle in the central Gaza Strip.
According to WAFA correspondent, Israeli forces struck a civilian vehicle near the al-Nuwairi Tower, west of the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Strip, resulting in the killing of six people.
JERUSALEM – An officer and a soldier were killed and four others injured in two separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said Sunday.
Captain Noam Ravid and Staff Sergeant Yaly Seror, from the Yahalom elite engineering unit, were killed when an explosive device detonated in a tunnel shaft they were inspecting inside a building in the southern city of Rafah, said the military.
One soldier was seriously wounded and another moderately injured in the same blast, the military said. Both were evacuated to a hospital in Israel.
In a separate incident in northern Gaza, two reservists with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 7007th Battalion were wounded, one of them seriously, it added.
The Israeli Army Radio reported that the two were injured after a tank shell malfunctioned and exploded. The soldiers had fired the shell from an Israeli position when the explosion occurred.
The incidents came as the military was preparing to expand its operation in the Gaza Strip, saying on Saturday that it would mobilize thousands of reservists in the coming days.
Six Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel resumed its military operation in Gaza on March 18, according to an Israeli tally.
GAZA – At least 14 Palestinians, including seven women and a child, were killed on Sunday morning as Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple locations across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
In the central Gaza Strip, two people — including one woman — were killed and others injured after an Israeli strike hit the Abu Hweishel family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
In a separate attack, 10 civilians — including six women and a child — were killed when a drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Two more people succumbed to wounds sustained in previous Israeli attacks on Khan Younis, south of the Strip, and Beit Hanoun, north of the region.
GAZA – At least six Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and several others wounded in a series of Israeli airstrikes last night that struck multiple areas of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
WAFA correspondent reported that a man, his wife, and their two children from the Qanan family were killed when their apartment was bombed by Israeli fighter jets in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.
In a separate strike, a man was killed when an Israeli warplane targeted a tent belonging to the family of former prisoner Bassam al-Najjar in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, a woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in the Al-Amal neighborhood in the city.
Six others were injured, two of them critically, when an Israeli missile struck another tent west of the town of al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis.
Palestinians receive donated food at a community kitchen in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP)
JERUSALEM – The Foreign Press Association Saturday called on Israel to allow news media “unrestricted” access to Gaza, off-limits to outside journalists operating independently since the war there began in October 2023.
“We call on Israel to stop the never-ending delays, uphold the fundamental principles of press freedom and allow unrestricted entry for journalists to Gaza,” the Jerusalem-based association wrote in a statement to mark World Press Freedom Day.
The FPA has more than 350 members working for foreign media outlets in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
An AFP journalist sits on its board of directors.
The association criticized Israel for an “unprecedented ban preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza,” calling the decision a “mark of shame for a country that claims to be a beacon of democracy.”
The FPA, which has filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court challenging the ban, said its members “salute our Palestinian colleagues who continue to report the story at great personal risk.”
“Nonetheless, the Israeli restrictions have severely hindered independent reporting and robbed the world of a full picture of the situation in Gaza,” the association added.
The war that continues to devastate Gaza was triggered by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
With the exception of a journalist for US outlet CNN who entered a field hospital in Rafah operated by the United Arab Emirates in 2023, the only outside journalists allowed into Gaza, which is under Israeli blockade, did so with Israeli forces.
Their reports were subject to military censorship.
The UN Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said it “sombrely marks World Press Freedom Day as Palestinian journalists continue to be killed or injured at an alarming rate with impunity.”
The office said it had independently verified the killing of 211 journalists in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, including 28 women.
Israel’s military has accused many of the journalists killed in its strikes of being “terrorists,” members of the Palestinian militant groups Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
Hamas’s attack on Israel which sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
According to health ministry figures in Hamas-run Gaza, the overall death toll in the territory since the war broke out is more than 52,400.
A woman reacts as she attends the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 3, 2025. REUTERS
GAZA CITY – Gaza’s civil defense agency said Saturday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people including three babies up to a year old.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (0000 GMT).
Bassal told AFP that eight of the dead had been identified and were all from the same extended family, including a boy and girl, both one-year-olds, and a month-old baby.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike.
Israel resumed its military offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce in its war against Hamas that was triggered by the Palestinian militant group’s October 7, 2023 attack.
On Friday the civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people across the war-ravaged territory, which has been under a total Israeli blockade since March 2.
Israel halted aid deliveries to Gaza, saying Hamas had diverted supplies. Israel says the blockade is meant to pressure the militants into releasing hostages held in the Palestinian territory.
UN agencies have urged Israel to lift restrictions, saying that Gazans were experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe and warning of famine.
GAZA, May 3, 2025 – Several Palestinians, including children, were killed on Saturday evening in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a group of civilians in the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Medical sources confirmed that the drone strike hit a gathering of people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.
Meanwhile, a displaced Palestinian woman was killed and five others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent sheltering families in the Al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
In a separate incident, a child was wounded after an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on the Al-Huda displacement camp in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Israeli warplanes also targeted land near the Al-Rahma displacement camp in the Al-Maslakh area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 52,495 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 118,366 others injured.
