TNA Staff
The New Arab / April 4, 2025
At least 30 Palestinians were killed in fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday morning as Israeli forces continue to target civilian infrastructure across the shattered territory, Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP.
A strike in Khan Younis killed at least 25 people, a medical source at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital told the newswire.
The killings come just hours after Israel attacked three schools in Gaza City, killing at least 33 people, more than half of them children. More than 100 people were killed on Thursday alone.
The death toll from the 17-month war had climbed to more than 50,500 as of Thursday morning. Almost 1,200 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since 18 March, when Israel escalated its assault on the Gaza Strip and collapsed the six-week ceasefire with Hamas.
The latest attacks come as the Israeli military announced the start of a new ground offensive east of Gaza City to seize additional territory and incorporate it into a ‘security zone’.
In Lebanon, also on Friday morning, an Israel airstrike on the city of Sidon killed Hassan Farhat, a senior Hamas official, as well as his son and daughter.
Gaza death toll climbs to 50,609
The Gaza death toll has risen to 50,609, according to the latest figures from the strip’s health ministry.
More than 115,000 others have been wounded in Israel’s 17-month assault.
The Israeli army said Friday that its soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who threw stones at troops near the occupied West Bank village of Husan, whose mayor told AFP the boy was 17.
The army said that on Thursday evening it had “eliminated one terrorist” who was throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
Husan mayor Jamal Sabateen said the army had opened fired on youngsters throwing stones in the village west of Bethlehem.
“The Israeli army opened fire on them – killed one and injured another. The army took them, and up until now, they haven’t been returned,” Sabateen told AFP.
