Gaza: Israeli airstrikes killed women, children – Rescuers

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Gaza: Israeli airstrikes killed women, children – Rescuers

Gaza’s civil defence agency has said that Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed no fewer than 25 people across the Gaza Strip, including women and children.

Recall that Israel resumed its aerial and ground assault on Gaza on March 18, reigniting fighting after a two-month ceasefire that had paused more than 15 months of war in the coastal territory.

“Since dawn today, the occupation’s air strikes have killed 20 people and injured dozens more, including children and women across the Gaza Strip,” spokesman for the civil defence agency, Mahmud Bassal said.

The agency, in a separate statement later,
reported that five people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a group of civilians in eastern Rafah.

Waploaded reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday vowed to continue the war and bring home the remaining hostages held in Gaza without yielding to Hamas’s demands.

Netanyahu, in a statement rejected calls from the militants to end the war and withdraw troops from Gaza.

“We are at a critical stage of the campaign, and at this point, we need patience and determination to win,” Netanyahu said.

According to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, since Israel resumed its offensive last month, at least 1,827 people have been killed in Gaza.

The ministry said the overall death toll in the Gaza war has reached 51,201, the majority of them civilians, figures the UN considers reliable.

The war broke was said to have broken out after Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel in October 2023, which resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side.

During that attack, Palestinian militants reportedly abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still held hostage in Gaza, including 34 the military said are dead.