Whole bloodlines erased: ‘Israel’ escalates Gaza slaughter
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Amid intensifying Israeli carnage, homes, tents, hospitals, and entire families were completely wiped out.
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Mourners pray over the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli military airstrike that hit a UN school, during a funeral in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 12, 2025 (AP)
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that hospitals across the Strip received the bodies of 96 martyrs and treated more than 140 wounded on Saturday alone, as of 12:00 pm, following a new wave of deadly Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian areas.
Emergency responders warned that the actual death toll is likely higher, as many victims remain trapped under rubble or in zones unreachable by ambulance and civil defense crews due to ongoing bombardment.
Over the past 24 hours, at least 67 Palestinians, including five retrieved from beneath the debris, have been confirmed killed. An additional 361 individuals sustained injuries during the same period.
The total number of Palestinians killed in "Israel’s" aggression on Gaza has now reached 53,339, with 121,034 others injured since the genocide began on October 7, 2023.
Since March 18, 2025, alone, the death toll stands at 3,193 killed and 8,993 wounded.
Israeli genocide is ongoing
In one of the bloodiest massacres, more than 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured or reported missing following a wave of intense Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip at dawn Sunday.
According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, the aggression targeted residential neighborhoods, displacement camps, and shelters across the Strip.
The victims, primarily women and children, were distributed across the besieged enclave as follows: 44 martyrs in the south, 42 in the north, and 15 in central areas. Families seeking refuge in tents were directly struck, with some completely wiped out from Gaza’s civil registry.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in several locations.
'Israel' wipes out family, kills Gaza academic in brutal airstrikes
The Israeli onslaught resulted in wiping out at least four entire families in northern Gaza, according to the civil defense. In al-Falouja, a strike on the Shu’laq family home resulted in multiple martyrs and injuries. In Deir al-Balah, the Abu Seif family was targeted, leading to the martyrdom of four family members.
The Nassar family in Jabalia al-Nazla lost 20 members, while the Maqat family in Jabalia al-Balad lost 8. In Beit Lahia, 7 members of the Barawi family were martyred. Another airstrike on a home in al-Saftawi killed 15, most of whom were women and children.
Horrible massacres in Gaza: 153 Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli air strikes since morning today including many children and five journalists. Attached is a photo of one of many families (Zinaty family) who were all killed and some photos of the five Journalists. The… pic.twitter.com/Kj3hGqADFh
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) May 18, 2025
Among the martyrs was Dr. Zakaria al-Sinwar, a professor of modern and contemporary history at the Islamic University of Gaza. He was martyred alongside three of his children when an airstrike targeted his family’s tent in al-Nuseirat. Dr. al-Sinwar was the brother of Yahya al-Sinwar, the martyred head of Hamas’ political bureau.
Indonesian Hospital under siege
In a separate development, the Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza has come under direct siege following the recent shutdown of the European Gaza Hospital. Surrounded by invading Israeli units since dawn, the facility has been cut off from emergency services, with panic spreading among patients and medical staff.
With these developments, all public hospitals in the North Gaza governorate are now officially out of service, leaving thousands without access to urgent medical care.
Two patients were injured while attempting to flee the premises, and critical cases have been left untreated. The Ministry warned of a looming collapse in Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and urged immediate international intervention to protect hospitals, medical teams, and civilians.
Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital appeals for blood donations
The Al-Shifa Medical Complex has issued an urgent call for blood donations, urging residents across the Gaza Strip to contribute to help save the lives of the wounded and critically ill.
The appeal comes amid worsening humanitarian conditions as Gaza’s Civil Defense reported that more than 200 individuals remain missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Rescue teams say they are unable to reach them due to ongoing hostilities and limited resources.
Relentless bombardment across southern, central Gaza
Israeli airstrikes continued to pound southern Gaza, targeting areas including Jamal Abdel Nasser Street in the Batn al-Samin neighborhood, the Abu Salah area in Aabasan al-Kabira, and the Ashour family home in Qa'a al-Qurain.
In central Gaza, a drone strike killed a young man in al-Maghazi, while residential homes in Deir al-Balah were also hit. Heavy artillery shelling was reported east of Khan Younis and al-Bureij, while gunfire echoed across al-Qarara.
Meanwhile, northern Gaza bore the brunt of the overnight attacks. The neighborhoods of al-Tuffah, al-Shujaiya, and Jabalia were subjected to relentless shelling. A fire belt barrage launched by Israeli occupation forces in eastern al-Shujaiya caused widespread destruction. At Al-Awda Hospital in Tal al-Zaatar, nearby airstrikes damaged both internal and external structures.
Human toll: Names buried beneath the rubble
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported that over 250 Palestinians have been killed in the past 48 hours alone. In a powerful statement, the agency stressed the erasure of human lives in global discourse: “These are lives. These are human beings. They cannot just be reduced to numbers.”
"More than 250 Palestinians in #Gaza have been reported killed in the last two days alone.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) May 18, 2025
These are lives. These are human beings. They cannot just be reduced to numbers.
Atrocities are becoming a new norm, under our watch, making the unbearable bearable with indifference.
Is… pic.twitter.com/BUYE2pCyJK
UNRWA condemned what it described as the normalization of atrocity: “Atrocities are becoming a new norm, under our watch, making the unbearable bearable with indifference. Is this our new ‘humanity’?”
Referencing novelist Omar El Akkad, the agency concluded with: “One day..., everyone will have always been against this. That day will, however, be too late and will stain our consciousness for generations to come.”
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