Israel Presses Ahead With Genocide of Starving Gazans

Date: 23 May 2025 - 23:24

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (Dispatches) — At least 60 people were martyred by Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday, as Israel pressed ahead with its military onslaught.
The dead included 10 people in the southern city of Khan Yunis, four in the central town of Deir al-Balah and nine in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north, according to the Nasser, Al-Aqsa and Al-Ahli hospitals where the bodies were brought.
Israel faces mounting international condemnation for its genocide and pressure to let aid into Gaza amid a humanitarian crisis. Gaza has been under an Israeli blockade for nearly three months, with experts warning that many of its 2 million residents are at high risk of famine.
Even the United States, a staunch ally, has voiced concerns over the hunger crisis.
The strikes that lasted into Friday morning came a day after Israeli tanks and drones attacked a hospital in northern Gaza, igniting fires and causing extensive damage, Palestinian hospital officials said on Thursday. Videos taken by a health official at Al-Awda Hospital show walls blown away and thick black smoke billowing from wreckage.
The strikes come a day after two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a reception for young diplomats at the Capital Jewish Museum, in Washington, DC. The suspect told police he “did it for Palestine,” according to court documents filed Thursday as he was charged with murder. He didn’t enter a plea.
Amid pressure, Israeli officials said Friday they let in more than 100 trucks of aid, including flour, food, medical equipment and drugs.
But UN agencies say the amount is woefully insufficient, compared with around 600 trucks a day that entered during a recent ceasefire and that are necessary to meet basic needs.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that Israel had so far authorized what “amounts to a teaspoon of aid

when a flood of assistance is required,” with no supplies at all reaching northern Gaza.
Israel’s aggression, which has destroyed large swaths of Gaza, has killed nearly 53,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.