Israeli military strikes killed at least 60 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, said Palestinian doctors when the United States and the Arab mediators visited the Middle East on a ceasefire and US President Donald Trump.
Most victims, including women and children, were killed in air strikes in southern Gaza in Khan Younis, who met houses and tents, they said.
The dead included the local journalist Hassan Samour, who worked for the Hamas-guided AQSA radio station and was killed together with 11 family members when their home was met, the doctors said.
There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military who strengthened his offensive in Gaza when it tried to eradicate Hamas as a retaliation for the fatal attacks by the militant Palestinian group, which was carried out on Israel in 2023.
Israel carried out the latest strikes that day when Palestinians reminded of the “Naqba” or the catastrophe when hundreds of thousands of people fled or forced to flee their hometown and villages in the Middle East from 1948, which gave birth to the state of Israel.
With most of the 2.3 million people in Gaza, some residents of the tiny enclave are now greater than at the time of the Nakba.
“What we are experiencing now is worse than the Nakba from 1948,” said Ahmed Hamad, a Palestinian in Gaza city that has been sold several times.
“The truth is, we live in a constant state of violence and shift. Wherever we go, we look at attacks. Death surrounds us everywhere.”
Escalate violence
The Palestinian health officers say that the Israeli attacks have escalated since Trump began a visit to the Gulf States of Saudi, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday that many Palestinians had hoped to urge him after a ceasefire.
The recent strikes follow the attacks on Gaza on Wednesday, in which at least 80 people were killed, the local health officers said.
Little has come from new indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas under the direction of Trumps, Qatar and Egyptian mediators in Doha.
Hamas says it is ready to free all the remaining hostages it has in return for the war, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu preferred preliminary ceasefire and says that the war can only end when Hamas is exterminated.
Israel entered Gaza on October 7, 2023 in the retaliation for the attack on South Israeli communities led by Hamas, in which, according to Israeli Tallies, around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken to Gaza as hostages.
According to local health officers, the Israeli military campaign has killed more than 52,900 Palestinians. It left the Gaza on the sidelines of famine, auxiliary groups and international agencies.
A humanitarian organization supported by the United States will start working in Gaza as part of an aid distribution plan until the end of May, but has asked Israel to recover the United Nations and others the delivery of deliveries to Palestinians up to a facility.
No humanitarian aid has been delivered in Gaza since March 2, and a global hunger monitor has warned that half a million people in Gaza, about a quarter of the population, are exposed to hunger.
According to the local health authorities, at least 70 Palestinians, including children, were killed in a wave of Israeli military strikes all over Gaza. The Israeli military had no immediate comment and said it tried to check the reports.
