Israeli strikes in Gaza Kill 114, say hospitals and rescuers

At least 114 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes through the Gaza Strip from Dawn, say health officials and rescuers.

Fifty -six people, including women and children, were killed when the homes and tents, shelters of displaced families, were bombarded overnight in the southern town of Han Einnis, Nasser hospital said.

Israeli military said they had hit Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in southern Gaza.

The Hamas Civil Protection Agency also reported deadly strikes in the northern city of Jabalia, including an attack on a health clinic and a prayer hall at the Jabalia refugee camp, which is said to have killed 13 people.

Israeli forces are intensifying their bombing from what they say are Hamas and infrastructure fighters before the planned expansion of their offensive in Gaza.

It comes when US President Donald Trump visits the region and indirect negotiations on a new deal to end fire and hostages between Hamas and Israel continue.

The streets of Khan Einnis were filled with funeral processions and grieving families on Thursday morning, then the residents said, are the most deadly set of air strikes in the city since Israel resumed its offensive almost two months ago.

A man told the BBC Arabic program in the Middle East daily that the Nasser hospital’s morgue was “filled out of capacity” and that several bodies must be placed in the corridor before they could be buried.

Doctors were forced to treat injured people, including those with burns, amputations and internal bleeding, stretchers, benches and on the floor due to lack of beds, he said.

“There were 36 children killed today … entire families were deleted from the civil register,” he added. “It is tragic that this level of destruction has become part of everyday life.”

A video shared by a local activist has shown that doctors are laid dozens of bodies on Earth in a local cemetery. I have a nearby standing prayers for hundreds of mourners, gathered behind it in arranged rows.

Safa Al-Bayuk, a 42-year-old mother at six, said her sons Muat, who was six weeks old, and Moataz, who was one year and four months old, were killed at one of the strikes.

“I gave them dinner and they fell asleep. It was a normal day … (then) The world turned upside down,” she told Reuters news agency.

13-year-old Rey-Al-Natati said her uncle’s family, including her 12-year-old cousin Mena, was killed when their two homes were bombed.

“We didn’t feel and heard nothing until we woke up with ruins on us,” she said. “Civil defense did not come. I will tell you honestly that we were pulling (out). My father helped us.”

The medics said local journalist Hassan Samur, who worked for Hamas-Aksa radio, was killed with 11 family members when their home in East Bani was struck.

The Civil Defense Agency said on Thursday morning that its first responses had restored the bodies of four people after Israeli strikes in the northern city of Bate Lahia and two others in the central city of Deir Al Balah.

Later, spokesman Mahmoud Bazal reported that an Israeli hit in a home in Jabalia had killed all five members of the Shihab family.

Another 13 people were killed when the Al-Tauba Health Clinic and the Prayer Hall in the Al-Fakuri area at the Jabalia refugee camp was bombed, he said.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA said 15 people were killed, including 11 children.

Graphic video posted online, supposedly from the scene, showed two bodies covered with debris on a street to a severely damaged building.

Amir Selha, a 43-year-old North Gaza resident, told the Agency AFP News: “Tank shells hit around the clock and the area is full of people and tents.”

He also said the Israeli military drones had launched leaflets over his neighborhood, warning residents to move south.

On Wednesday, Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people in the territory, including 59 in the city of Jabalia and a refugee camp, according to hospitals and civil protection.

The Israeli military said they had hit Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad fighters in northern territory on Tuesday night. He warned the residents of Jabalia and the neighboring areas to evacuate on Tuesday after rockets were fired in Israel.

Israeli evacuation orders issued on Wednesday afternoon also sparked panic among the residents of a crowded area of ​​Gaza, to the north.

The Israeli military said that a hospital, a university and several schools shelter displaced people in the Rimal neighborhood have become “terrorist fortresses” and that this will soon attack them with “intense power”.

Separately supported by the US organization, he said he would start working in Gaza within two weeks as part of a new highly criticized plan to allocate the US and Israel help.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had asked Israel to leave the UN and others to resume delivery until it was created.

UN agencies have insisted that they will not cooperate with the plan – which is in accordance with a pre -approved Israel government – saying that it is contrary to the basic humanitarian principles.

Israel has not allowed any assistance or other supplies to Gaza for 10 weeks, and help agencies have warned of mass fasting among 2.1 million population.

Israel imposed the blockade on March 2 and resumed its offensive against Hamas two weeks later, ending the fire at two months. It says he wants to put pressure on Hamas to release his other 58 hostages, up to 23 of whom are thought to be alive.

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.

Since then, at least 53 010 people have been killed in Gaza, including 2876 since the renewal of the Israeli offensive, according to the health ministry in the territory.