(Gaza) Palestinian rescue has announced on Saturday the death of eleven people, including three young children, in a night strike on a refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army confirmed to having targeted a “member of Hamas”
Posted at 8:12 a.m.
Ours [personnes ont été tuées] Following the bombing by [l’armée israélienne] From the home of the Al-Bayram family in the Khan Younès camp, “Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for the Gaza Strip, told AFP. Among the eight dead already identified, all of the same extended family, was a one-year-old girl and boy, as well as one month old, he said.
An AFP journalist filmed rescuers and civilians naked in the rubble in the light of torch lamps to extract victims. One two leaves by carrying the inanimate body of a very young child.
According to a local resident, Fayka Abu Hatab, the attack took place around 2:20 am or 2:30 a.m., causing a blinding “dust cloud”. “We were in total darkness”, “all our windows were blown” and “the house of our neighbors was destroyed,” she said to AFP, also speaking of “destroyed pieces” at home.
PHOTO HATEM KHALED, REUTERS
A woman reacts as she attended the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, on May 3, 2025.
-Contacted by AFP, a spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed the strike indicating without further details that the latter had targeted “a terrorist member of Hamas”.
The Israeli army resumed its bombings and its offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending two months of truce with Hamas in the war launched by the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement on the south of Israel on October 7, 2023.
This attack led to the death of 1218 people on the Israeli side, for most civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures.
Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still retained in Gaza, 34 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army. Hamas also retains the body of an Israeli soldier killed in a previous war in Gaza in 2014.
Israel cut the entry of all humanitarian aid on March 2 into the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of diverting it. Israel says that this total blockade is intended to put pressure on the Islamist movement so that it releases all the hostages it holds, alive or dead.
Since then, the United Nations has been calling on Israel to reopen the territory with humanitarian aid, vital for the population faced with a catastrophic humanitarian situation, and exposed to famine according to UN officials.
The Israeli military reprisal campaign for the attack on October 7, left at least 52,495 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas Ministry of Health, deemed reliable by the UN.
