Palestinians evacuated Wednesday, May 14, 2025 after Israeli troops issued evacuation warnings at several schools and a hospital in the Rimal community in Gaza City. Jehad Alshrafi/ap Closed subtitles
Khan Younis of the Gaza Strip - Several air strikes hit Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city, overnight until Thursday, killing more than 50 people on the second consecutive night.
The strike was a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to the Middle East, visiting the Gulf countries but not Israel. There is a widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit could introduce a ceasefire agreement or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel's blockade of the territory is now entering its third month.
An Associated Press photographer of Khan Younis calculated 10 air strikes in the city overnight on Thursday and saw many bodies taking many bodies to the morgue of the city's Nasser Hospital. Some corpses arrive at debris, and some tote bags contain the remains of multiple people. The hospital's morgue confirmed that 54 people were killed.
The deceased included a reporter working on Katari TV Network Arabic.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike.
It was the second night of heavy bombing, after at least 70 people killed in northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday, including nearly twenty children.
Israel vowed to upgrade Valisrelli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier this week to escalate force in the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip to promote his goal to destroy Hamas militant groups that rule Gaza.
In a comment from Netanyahu's office on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that Israeli troops "have a lot of strength to complete the mission...it means destroying Hamas".
The international rights group Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel's stated plans to seize Gaza and displace hundreds of thousands of people, "nearly closer to extinction" and called on the international community to object.
The war began with Hamas-led militants invading a 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel's retaliatory offensive killed nearly 53,000 Palestinians, many of whom were women and children, not to say how many were combatants. The ministry said nearly 3,000 people have been killed since Israel broke into the ceasefire on March 18.
Hamas still held 58 of about 250 hostages in the October 7 attack on Israel, and 23 remained alive despite Israeli authorities' concerns about the status of three.
As the Israeli strike Ministry of Health said on Thursday that the only hospital in Gaza failed to treat cancer caused by the Israeli strike, the Israeli strike caused the European hospital Khan Younis - the only remaining facility to provide cancer treatment in Gaza - provided cancer treatment in Gaza due to severe damage caused by its infrastructure and access roads.
The ministry added that the closure stopped all specialized treatments, including cardiac surgery and cancer care.
Israeli military conducted two air strikes on European hospitals on Tuesday, saying it targeted the Hamas command center below the facility. Six people were killed during the strike.
European hospital director Imad al-Hout told the Associated Press that the hospital had 200 patients during the strike on Tuesday. They were all gradually evacuated, and the last 90 were moved to other hospitals, including at Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital on Wednesday morning. He added that efforts are now being made to coordinate the maintenance of the facility.
Israel's aid blockade to Gaza in its third month offensive has destroyed a large number of Gaza's urban landscapes and displaced 90% of its population, usually multiple times. It stopped the entry of all aid (including food and drugs) into the territory on March 2, with international food security experts warning that Gaza could fall into famine if Israel does not lift the lockdown and stop its military campaign.
According to the survey results of the Integrated Food Security Stage Classification, nearly one million Palestinians face possible hunger and one million people are barely able to access enough food, which is the leading international agency for the severity of the hunger crisis.
Human Rights Watch said Israel's plan to seize Gaza and stay there, coupled with "system damage" of civilian infrastructure, and all obstacles to importing into the territory, was an action taken to prevent Israeli action.
Israel strongly denied accusing it of genocide in Gaza.
The group also called on Hamas to release the hostages it still owns.