Israeli Strikes Kill 38 in Gaza, Including Journalist and Rescue Service Official

A rescuer walks over rubble to assess damage and look for survivors, in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 23, 2025, in this screengrab taken from video. Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via REUTERS
A rescuer walks over rubble to assess damage and look for survivors, in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 23, 2025, in this screengrab taken from video. Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via REUTERS
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Israeli Strikes Kill 38 in Gaza, Including Journalist and Rescue Service Official

A rescuer walks over rubble to assess damage and look for survivors, in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 23, 2025, in this screengrab taken from video. Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via REUTERS
A rescuer walks over rubble to assess damage and look for survivors, in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 23, 2025, in this screengrab taken from video. Palestinian Civil Defence/Handout via REUTERS

Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours killed at least 38 people in Gaza, including a mother and her two children sheltering in a tent, local health officials said Sunday, with no data available for a second straight day from now-inaccessible hospitals in the north. A local journalist and a senior rescue service official were also killed.

Further details also emerged of the local doctor who lost nine of her 10 children in an Israeli strike on Friday.

Gaza's Health Ministry said 3,785 people have been killed in the territory since Israel ended a ceasefire and renewed its offensive in March, vowing to destroy Hamas and return the 58 hostages it still holds from the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 38 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including

The latest deaths in the Israeli campaign resulted from separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.

In Jabalia, they said local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members were killed by an airstrike that hit his house earlier on Sunday.

Another airstrike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife in their house, medics added.

There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military.

The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said that Abu Warda's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 220.

The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said in separate statements on Sunday that fighters carried out several ambushes and attacks using bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces operating in several areas across Gaza.

On Friday the Israeli military said it had conducted more strikes in Gaza overnight, hitting 75 targets including weapons storage facilities and rocket launchers.



France Offers to Help Make Gaza Food Distribution Safer

France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot arrives at the European Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, 23 June 2025. (EPA)
France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot arrives at the European Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, 23 June 2025. (EPA)
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France Offers to Help Make Gaza Food Distribution Safer

France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot arrives at the European Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, 23 June 2025. (EPA)
France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot arrives at the European Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Belgium, 23 June 2025. (EPA)

France "stands ready, Europe as well, to contribute to the safety of food distribution" in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Saturday.

His comments came as criticism grew over mounting civilian deaths at Israeli-backed food distribution centers in the territory.

Such an initiative, he added, would also deal with Israeli concerns that armed groups such as Hamas were getting hold of the aid.

Barrot expressed anger over "the 500 people who have lost their life in food distribution" in Gaza in recent weeks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday denounced as a "blood libel" a report in left-leaning daily Haaretz alleging that military commanders had ordered soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza

Aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday denounced the Israel- and US-backed food distribution effort in Gaza as "slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid".

And UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that hungry people in Gaza seeking food must not face a "death sentence".

The health ministry in Gaza, a territory controlled by Hamas, says that since late May, more than 500 people have been killed near aid centers while seeking scarce supplies.

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