Israeli strikes massacre multiple families in Gaza, including infants

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
9 May 2025 19:56
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The body of three-month-old Mohammad Hisham Shehab was recovered from beneath the rubble of his family's home in the al-Zannah area, east of Khan Younis.

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Bodies of some of the victims of an Israeli army strike on a restaurant, which killed at least 29 people, are transported from the scene to a hospital in Gaza City, May 7, 2025 (AP)

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in the Gaza Strip reported that eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City.

Elsewhere, a fisherman was killed and another wounded by Israeli gunfire in the northwest of Gaza City.

#شاهد | لحظة استهداف الاحتلال مراكب الصيادين في بحر مدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/G2vaYRE76H
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) May 9, 2025

In the south, three Palestinians were martyred in two separate drone strikes on the Ma'an area, east of Khan Younis.

The body of three-month-old Mohammad Hisham Shehab was recovered from beneath the rubble of his family's home in the al-Zannah area, also east of Khan Younis. The house had been bombed days earlier, killing both his parents and injuring his two siblings.

انتشال الطفل محمد هشام صبحي شهاب 3 شهور من استهداف منزل عائلة شهاب قبل يومين بمنطقة الزنة شرق خان يونس، حيث ارتقى والده ووالدته قبل يومين بذات القصف وأصيب شقيقيه. pic.twitter.com/RqKlDZcQjv
— أحمد فوزي - Afyemeni (@AFONR) May 9, 2025

Another Palestinian was martyred and several others wounded when an Israeli drone strike targeted a group of civilians near the Islamic University in eastern Khan Younis.

Israeli occupation forces also demolished multiple residential buildings in central Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

At dawn on Friday, four Palestinians—including three members of the same family—were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in the al-Rimal neighborhood and the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to local Palestinian media.

These developments come in light of increased Israeli aggression across the Gaza Strip.

On Wednesday, the United Nations' human rights chief told AFP that "Israel's" plan to escalate its military offensive in the Gaza Strip marks a critical and perilous moment for the civilian population trapped in the conflict zone.

"What we see is only more destruction, more hatred, more dehumanisation," UNHCR chief Volker Turk said, noting that "It's a very dangerous moment for civilians."

He stressed the urgent need to end the war and demanded that "Israel's" blockade on Gaza "be lifted immediately."

"With what is happening at the moment, in this current geopolitical moment, it is all the more important to come back to the principles, the values, to the norms, to the institutions, because they have served humanity well for 80 years," Turk said.

"If we lose them, we lose a lot of what has been actually possible by way of progress, human progress, development, and also when it comes to humanitarian action and human rights," he added.