Gaza’s civil defence company reported on Friday (April 25, 2025) that the death toll from an Israeli air strike the day earlier than on a home within the north of the Palestinian territory had risen to 23.
“Civil defence teams recovered 11 bodies last night and this morning following the Israeli bombing that targeted a residential house … in Jabalia,” Mohammed al-Mughayyir, an official with the company, instructed AFP.
“This is in addition to the 12 victims recovered at the time of the attack yesterday,” he added.
Gaza’s northern space of Jabalia has repeatedly been a spotlight Israel’s navy offensive for the reason that begin of the warfare on October 7, 2023 following Hamas’s assault on Israel.
The navy has returned to the district a number of occasions after saying it had been cleared of militants, saying Hamas fighters had regrouped there.
In one other strike within the space on Thursday, Israel hit what was beforehand a police station, rescuers stated.
The toll from that assault has risen to 11, Mughayyir stated, after initially saying that 9 individuals had been killed.
The navy stated on Thursday that it had struck a Hamas “command and control centre” within the space of Jabalia, with out specifying the goal.
Israeli strikes continued on Friday, with the civil defence company reporting that a minimum of 5 individuals — a pair and their three youngsters — had been killed when their tent was struck within the Al-Mawasi space of the southern metropolis of Khan Yunis.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal stated that the deceased lady had been pregnant.
Since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18 after the collapse of a two-month ceasefire with Hamas, a minimum of 1,978 individuals have been killed in Gaza, bringing the general death toll of the warfare to 51,355, in accordance to the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry.
Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,218 individuals, largely civilians, in accordance to an AFP depend based mostly on official Israeli figures.
During the assault, Palestinian militants additionally kidnapped 251 individuals to Gaza, 58 of whom are nonetheless held captive there, together with 34 the Israeli navy says are lifeless.
Israeli officers and the navy say constant navy strain in Gaza is required to safe the discharge of the remaining hostages.
Published – April 25, 2025 09:22 pm IST
