Mourners carry the body of Palestinian child Ahmad Abu Saleh from the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah to his burial spot on April 7, 2025, after he was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on his family's home in the central Gaza Strip city. (Photo by AFP)
Israel has escalated its deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip in defiance of calls for the resumption of a ceasefire aimed at ending the regime's genocide against Palestinians in the besieged territory.
Gaza's civil defense agency said on Tuesday that at least 19 civilians, including several children, were killed in Israeli strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said, “Five children and four adults were killed in a strike that hit a home in the central city of Deir el-Balah, while two separate pre-dawn attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia in the north left a total of 10 people dead.”
Dozens more were also killed in Monday's airstrikes by the occupation's military across the Gaza Strip.
One of the aerial assaults targeted a tent camp used by journalists within the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.
The attack burned to death Palestine Today TV reporter Hilmi al-Faqawi along with another man named Yousef al-Khazindar.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Faqawi’s martyrdom as an act of “extrajudicial killing,” saying it came in line with Israel's growing crimes against journalists and attempts to prevent the media from covering events on the ground.
Israel committed its new crimes despite calls by six UN agencies for the immediate resumption of the Gaza ceasefire amid a deepening humanitarian crisis there.
In a joint statement, they warned that for more than a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered the blockaded territory, where over 2.1 million Palestinian.
Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, but it failed to achieve its declared objectives despite killing 50,752 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring more than 115,475 others.
The usurping entity accepted longstanding negotiation terms by the Hamas resistance group under the Gaza ceasefire, which began on January 19.
On March 18, however, Israel unilaterally broke the truce and resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza.
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