Multiple airstrikes on Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis overnight killed more than 50 people in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing.
According to a reporter in Khan Younis, he counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday and saw many bodies taken to the city’s Nasser Hospital mortuary. Some bodies arrived in pieces, with some body bags containing the remains of multiple people. The hospital’s mortuary confirmed 54 people had been killed.
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According to the Qatari television network Al Araby TV, among the dead was one of its journalists. In a social media announcement, the network said Hasan Samour had been killed along with 11 members of his family in one of the strikes in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military had no immediate response to the strikes. The second night of intensive bombing followed Wednesday’s attacks on northern and southern Gaza, which killed at least 70 Palestinians, including over two dozen children.
The strikes take place while US President Donald Trump travels to the Middle East, visiting Gulf states but not Israel. There had been widespread hope that Trump’s regional visit might result in a ceasefire agreement or the restoration of humanitarian aid to Gaza. An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.
