Israeli attacks kill 60 in 24 hours as Gaza toll tops 50,000
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Among the latest victims are a second Doctors Without Borders staffer and entire families, as airstrikes target homes, aid centers, and civilians indiscriminately.
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A Palestinian father holds his child, who was severely injured in an Israeli airstrike, at the Baptist al-Maamadani Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP)
60 Palestinians were killed and 162 were injured in 24 hours, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported, as Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave continue unabated.
In a statement released Saturday, the Ministry confirmed that several victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, where emergency and civil defense crews are unable to reach them due to ongoing Israeli assualts.
The health authorities noted that since March 18, 2025, at least 1,309 people have been killed and 3,184 have been injured, highlighting a steep escalation in the humanitarian crisis.
The cumulative toll from the Israeli genocide, which began on October 7, 2023, has now reached 50,669 killed and 115,225 injured, according to the Ministry’s latest figures.
Israeli genocide ongoing
Israeli drone and artillery strikes continued across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, leaving a trail of destruction and casualties, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.
In the Khan Younis refugee camp, a targeted Israeli drone strike hit a charitable kitchen, killing three Palestinians and injuring several others. The attack struck a site offering food relief amid Gaza’s dire humanitarian crisis.
Elsewhere in Gaza City, an airstrike on a residential apartment in the city center claimed the life of one person and wounded two others in the early hours of the morning.
Israeli artillery also bombarded the Qizan Abu Rashwan area in southwestern Khan Younis, igniting fires, while another shelling on the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, killed a Palestinian woman when Al-Sikka Street came under fire.
Off Gaza’s coast, Israeli naval vessels opened fire on the Gaza City fishing port, escalating the maritime assault. Meanwhile, artillery shelling struck parts of the al-Shujaiyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza, with casualties rushed to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
In Rafah, Israeli occupation forces intensified operations, carrying out a series of demolitions in the western parts of the city. Artillery shelling pounded the North, and Israeli helicopters fired rounds northeast of Rafah. A young man succumbed to wounds from a previous strike in the al-Nasr neighborhood.
As Israeli assaults escalate, waves of displacement continue. Civilians are being forcibly displaced from the heavily bombarded al-Shujaiyya neighborhood toward western Gaza City as families endure worsening humanitarian conditions amid relentless Israeli attacks.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Saturday that nearly 1.9 million Palestinians — including tens of thousands of children — have been repeatedly displaced since the start of the war on Gaza.
Since the war in #Gaza started, around 1.9 million people - including thousands of children - have gone through repeated forced displacement amid bombardment, fear, and loss. The collapse of the ceasefire caused yet another wave of displacement, impacting over 142,000 people just… pic.twitter.com/enmCXF8d9q
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) April 5, 2025
The agency noted that the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza triggered a new wave of displacement between March 18 and 23, forcing more than 142,000 people to flee amid intensifying Israeli attacks.
Survivor mourns generations lost in Israeli airstrike on family home
Following an Israeli airstrike that reduced his family home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to rubble, survivor Bahaa al-Akkad described the loss of generations who once lived together under one roof.
“This is where more than 80 members of my family lived. It housed my grandparents, uncles, and more than 40 children,” al-Akkad said on Friday, standing amid the debris after the attack that claimed at least 19 lives.
“Most of those killed were women and children,” he said, pointing to the indiscriminate nature of the brutal Israeli assault.
Al-Akkad stated that the building was “directly targeted by Israeli missiles without any warning,” emphasizing that “there is no justification for pounding this residential building. This is a war crime committed by Israel.”
The strike is one of many that have devastated densely populated neighborhoods in Gaza, where entire families continue to be wiped out in single attacks.
Second MSF worker killed by IOF in Gaza
Israeli occupation forces have killed a second Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff member in Gaza within two weeks, raising the organization's death toll to 11 since the war erupted 18 months ago.
MSF confirmed that 58-year-old Hussam Al-Loulu was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday in southwest Deir Al-Balah, alongside his wife and 28-year-old daughter. He is survived by two sons. Al-Loulu had joined the organization in December, working as a security guard at MSF’s emergency unit in Khan Younis.
In a statement, MSF said, “Our colleague Hussam was killed along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of attacks by Israeli forces on 18 March.”
Just last week, Israeli forces also killed MSF team member Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal in an airstrike that struck the apartment building where he resides in Deir al-Balah.
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