Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed 30 people, including a rescue worker and a local journalist.
In Jabalia, local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several members of his family were reported killed in an airstrike on his home. According to medical officials, Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior civil servant in the emergency services, and his wife were killed in another air strike in Nuseirat.
The press service of the Hamas-controlled Gaza government said Abu Warda’s death brought the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 220.
Nine out of Gaza doctor’s 10 children killed in Israeli airstrike
On Friday, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home and went to work at the emergency department of the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza.
Hours later, the bodies of seven children, most of them badly burned, were brought to the hospital, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. They were Dr. al-Najjar’s own children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on her family’s home, the Gaza Civil Defense said. The bodies of two more of her children remained under the rubble.
Only one of her ten children, 11-year-old Adam, survived. Dr. Najjar’s husband, Hamdi, also a doctor, was seriously injured in the strike. Videos of the damage caused by the strike have been posted on numerous social media sites.
Later on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement that two of its staff members, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal, were killed in a strike on a residential building in Khan Younis on Saturday.
In a separate statement, the Gaza press office said Israeli forces controlled 77 per cent of the Gaza Strip either through ground troops or through evacuation orders and bombardments that prevented residents from leaving their homes.
According to Gaza health authorities, more than 53,900 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, and the coastal strip has been devastated.
