The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023, has now reached 54,084 martyrs, with an additional 123,308 wounded.
In the past 24 hours alone, 28 people were killed and 179 injured, according to the ministry. However, these figures do not include casualties from the northern governorates of Gaza, where access remains impossible due to ongoing hostilities.
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli military campaign on the Gaza Strip has risen to 54,056, with 123,129 others wounded since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources.
They that 3,901 Palestinians have been killed and 11,088 wounded since March 18, when Israeli forces resumed their offensive following the collapse of a temporary ceasefire agreement.
The Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday that at least 79 people were killed and another 163 wounded over the past 24 hours.
The death toll in Gaza now stands at 54,056 people killed since the start of the war, with thousands remaining missing.
26 May 2025 21:26 BST
At least 81 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday, the Gaza health ministry reported.
Israel has pounded the enclave as famine sets in among Palestinians.
13:41, 26 May 2025
At least 53,939 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023, Anadolu Ajansı reported quoting the Health Ministry on Sunday (May 25).
Bushra Rajab recalled waking up “to the sound of people screaming and panicking” after what sounded “like a big explosion”.
“Many people were killed and many were injured. Some of those killed were my relatives,” she said. “There were too many injured people for ambulances to reach. The remains of bodies were all over the place.”
In an 11-second clip shared on the messaging site Telegram, a young girl can be seen trying to make her way out of a burning classroom following a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls‘ school.
Health officials told reporters they had recovered the severely burned bodies of 31 people, including children, after the late-night strike.
It was unclear whether the child who featured in the video survived the attack.
Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including 36 in a school-turned-shelter that was struck as people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, according to local health officials. The military said it targeted militants operating from the school.
On Monday night, the Russian invaders launched nine X-101 air-launched cruise missiles over Ukraine, as well as 355 Shahed strike UAVs and imitator drones of various types, the Telegram channel of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
„As of 11:00, air defenses shot down all nine X-101 cruise missiles, neutralized 288 enemy Shahed UAVs and drones of other types in the east, north, south, west and center of the country. Some 233 were shot down by fire weapons, and 55 were lost/suppressed by electronic warfare,“ the report said.
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There were no reports of casualties or injuries as a result of the hits.
“He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” Mr. Trump said. “I’ve known him a long time. Always gotten along with him. But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all.”
He added, “We’re in the middle of talking, and he’s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities.”
Mr. Trump continued criticizing Mr. Putin hours later, writing on social media that his Russian counterpart “has gone absolutely CRAZY” and was shooting missiles and drones into Ukraine’s cities, “for no reason whatsoever.”
Nearly 80 people have been killed in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes, including nine of a Gaza pediatrician’s ten children, according to local health officials. The strikes hit Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving the doctor’s husband wounded and only one child critically injured.
Nine of a doctor‘s 10 children have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Gaza, which also left her surviving son badly injured and her husband in a critical condition.
Alaa Al Najjar, a paediatrician at Al Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, was at work during the attack on her home, south of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on Friday.
Yahya, 12, Eve, 9, Rival, 5, Sadeen, 3, Rakan, 10, Ruslan, 7, Jibran, 8, Luqman, 2, and Sedar, not yet 1 year old, died in the strike on Najjar’s home, according to hospital officials.
Video provided by Gaza‘s Civil Defense showed a tiny charred body zipped up inside a bag. Sedar’s remains were never found.
“We couldn’t find any trace of him,” a Civil Defense worker said.
One of Najjar’s children and her husband, also a physician, survived with injuries. Dr. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, told the BBC on Saturday that he had operated on 11-year-old Adam.
In a dramatic escalation of the ongoing conflict, Russian forces unleashed a record-breaking 367 drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight, marking the largest aerial assault of the war so far. At least 12 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in strikes across the country, including the capital Kyiv and the village of Markhalivka, where entire residential areas were reduced to rubble.
May 24, 2025
Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, injuring 15 people in one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital since the war began. The attack came in waves, with Russia launching 14 ballistic missiles and 250 drones in the early hours of Saturday, although Ukrainian forces said they shot down six missiles and stopped most of the drones before they reached Kyiv.
Missile debris and unintercepted bombs caused damage in six districts of the city.
Footage shows the Kyiv skyline at night illuminated by sweeping drone searchlights. The low hum and buzz of drones flying close overhead is heard, building tension. Suddenly, a loud explosion erupts nearby, shaking buildings and lighting up the sky. Flames and smoke rise as emergency sirens wail in the distance. The scene captures the intensity of the ongoing aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital.
„As of 8:30 a.m., the air defense shot down six Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles (Kyiv) and neutralized 245 enemy Shahed UAVs (drones of other types) in the east, north, south and center of the country. Some 128 were shot down by fire weapons, 117 were locally lost/suppressed by electronic warfare (without negative consequences),“ the report says.
In total, on the night of May 24 (from 20:30 on May 23), the enemy launched an attack on Ukraine using 14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, attacking Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporizhia regions, and also launched 250 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators at Ukraine, primarily at Kyiv.
Ukraine‘s Interior Ministry said in a statement that at least 18 people were killed — among them three children from the same family — and 85 people injured. More than 80 residential buildings were damaged and 27 fires recorded, it added.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media early Sunday, „Today, rescuers have been working in more than 30 Ukrainian cities and villages following Russia’s massive strike.“
„These were deliberate strikes on ordinary cities,“ Zelenskyy continued. „Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged. In Kyiv, dormitories of the university‘s history department were hit. There were also strikes on enterprises. Tragically, people were killed, including children.“
Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.
The children – the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months – were severely burned in the bombing.
Shortly before the strike, Najjar had left for work with her husband, Hamdi al-Najjar, who then returned home.
Not long after, an Israeli bombardment struck their house in the Qizan al-Najjar area in southern Khan Younis, killing nine of their 10 children and wounding the 10th.
At least five Palestinians killed, 50 wounded by an Israeli attack that targeted people gathering around a truck carrying flour in southern Gaza.
Witnesses to Israel’s bombing of a family home in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp that left some 50 people dead or missing told Al Jazeera that “the Israeli military is killing civilians for fun”.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 53,901, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.
At least 122,593 have been wounded since the war began, it added.
Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 21 Palestinians, according to local media reports.
A ministry statement said that 60 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 185 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 122,382 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
At least 66 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Gaza’s Health Ministry reports.
„In the last couple of days we lost 29 children,“ Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters, describing them as „starvation-related deaths“. He later clarified that the total included elderly people as well as children.
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The death toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 has reached 53,762, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
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The toll from the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 53,655 martyrs and 121,950 injured since October 7, 2023.
Medical sources reported today, Wednesday, that since March 18 — when the occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire agreement — there have been 3,509 martyrs and 9,909 injured.
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“The enemy is not Hamas, nor is it the military wing of Hamas, as our military commander tells us, that we are forbidden to harm a Hamasnik unless he is part of the military wing,” Feiglin said, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
“Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory,” he added.
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The latest casualty brings today‘s death toll of Palestinians killed in Gaza to 62.
A senior Palestinian pediatric doctor described the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as „unbelievable,“ witnessing children dying from hunger and preventable injuries, scenes he said he had studied in textbooks, but never imagined seeing in real life.
In an interview with ABC News this week, Dr. Ahmmed Al-Farra, head of pediatrics and maternity in Gaza‘s Nasser Medical Complex, said hospitals are collapsing across the region.
The miniscule and inadequate amount of aid that Israeli authorities are now allowing into the Gaza Strip is a smokescreen to make it appear that the siege is over, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
While the war and blockade continue to wreak havoc on Palestinians’ health and leave them in desperate need of medical care and food, water, and other necessities, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week alone amid increasing Israeli military operations, intensified airstrikes, and widespread evacuation orders.
In the past 24 hours alone, Israeli air and ground assaults have killed at least 82 Palestinians and wounded another 262, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
(April 15, 2025)
She says it is paralysed and complicit in what is unfolding.
In an exclusive interview with The New Arab, Albanese delivers a stark message. She says the situation in Gaza is not just a war but a genocide taking place in real time. She blames not only the Israeli military campaign but also the global indifference and support from powerful governments and corporations.
„I do not think there has been anything in modern history since the end of World War Two that is so sadistic and militarised as this attack,“ she says.
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At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics.
On Sunday evening, around 500 Israeli peace activists marched from the southern city of Sderot toward the Gaza border near Kibbutz Nir Am protesting the genocide in the Strip. Demonstrators wore shirts reading “Stop the atrocities in Gaza” and carried signs with images of infants killed in Israeli airstrikes. Protesters attempted to block the Nir Am junction, and ten were detained by police.
In a call to join the demonstration – under the slogan “Drop everything and come to the Gaza border” – organizers warned that “within hours or days, Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu are planning to send tens of thousands of soldiers to occupy Gaza, starve more children, kill more Palestinian civilians, displace more families, and sacrifice the lives of the hostages and the security of us all to settle the Strip.”
Lecturer’s movement “Academic for Israel Democracy” (AID) also called “the academic community and the public at large to oppose the continuation of war. The never-ending war in Gaza is an integral agenda of the Netanyahu government and members of the coalition have openly encouraged war crimes.” AID announced today that protests rallies against war in Gaza will be held this week in campuses across the country: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Tel-Aviv University, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.
Dominique de Villepin s‘en est vivement pris à l‘action d‘Emmanuel Macron.
„Quelle crédibilité peut-on avoir sur le dossier ukrainien quand nous ne sommes que capables de signer des communiqués? Je peux vous dire que Jacques Chirac aujourd‘hui ne se contenterait pas de signer un communiqué avec le Canada et avec le Royaume-Uni“, a martelé l‘ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères.
He added: „The Europeans know this perfectly well, and they are there with wooden swords, even though there are three things that must be done immediately.“
First, „immediately suspend the European agreement with Israel. Most of Israel‘s trade is with Europe. Second, impose an arms embargo on all European countries. Third, refer the entire Israeli government and key Israeli military authorities to the International Criminal Court … by writing collectively to the court,“ he proposed.