At least 81 people killed at Israeli strike in Gaza, says Hamas Health Ministry

At least 81 Palestinians were killed and over 400 injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza for 24 hours until noon on Saturday, Hamas Health Ministry said.

In one incident, at least 11 people, including children, were killed after a strike near a stadium in Gaza, the staff of the Al-Shifa hospital and witnesses to news. The stadium was used to accommodate displaced people living in tents.

Shots checked by the BBC show that people are digging through the sand with their bare hands and peaks to find bodies.

The BBC contacted the Israeli military for comment.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has said he hopes that there may be a cessation of fire next week.

The Qatari mediators said they were hoping for US pressure to achieve a deal after a truce between Israel and Iran, which ended the 12-day conflict between the countries.

In March, a two -month ceasefire collapsed when Israel began fresh gas blows. The fire termination deal – which began on January 19 – was created to have three stages, but failed to pass the first stage.

The second stage involved the establishment of a constant fire, the return of the other living hostages to Gaza in exchange for Palestinians closed in Israel, and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza.

On Thursday, a senior Hamas official said BBC mediators had intensified their efforts to join a new deal to end the fire and hostage in Gaza, but these negotiations with Israel remain stagnant.

A rally was organized on Saturday night in Tel Aviv, calling for a deal to release the other Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The organizers said “it was time to end the fighting and to go home in a phase.”

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks in Gaza continue. The shot on Friday night near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza killed at least 11 people, said hospital staff and witnesses.

A witness said they were sitting when they “suddenly heard a huge explosion” after being hit.

“This area was full of tents – now the tents are under the sand. We spent hours digging with our bare hands,” Ahmed Zishavi told Reuters news agency.

He said that there are no “no desired people or any terrorists here, as the Israelis) … (there are) only civic residents, children who were directed without mercy,” he said.

BBC checked footage showing civilians and emergency services digging through the sandy ground with their hands and peaks to find bodies.

Two more people have been killed, some of them children, on strikes on an apartment block and a tent in the area of ​​Al Mavasi.

The impact in Al Mavasi killed three children and their parents who died as they fell asleep, relatives told the Associated Press.

“What did these children do to them? What is their guilt?” The grandmother of the children, Swad Abu Tima, told the News Agency.

More people were reported to have been killed on Saturday afternoon after an air strike in the Tufa neighborhood near Jafa School, where hundreds of displaced Gazani shelter.

The impact was killed at least eight people, including five children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

A witness Mohammed Habub told Reuters that his nephews, father and the children of his neighbors were killed at the strike.

“We did nothing to them, why do they harm us?

The health ministry said the ambulance and the crews of the civil defense face difficulties in reaching a number of victims trapped under the ruins and on the roads due to the inability to move in some of the affected areas.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet commented on those reported strikes.

IDF made a statement on a Saturday night saying that he had killed Hakam Mohammed Isa Al-Isa, a senior figure in the Hamas military wing, in the Sabra area in Gaza on Friday.

IDF said it was one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, a member of the Hamas General Security Council and played “a significant role in planning and execution” of Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel.

The Israeli military began their bombing from Gaza in response to the attack, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.

More than 56,000 people have been killed in Gaza ever since, according to the health ministry in the territory.