Israeli strikes throughout the Gaza Strip killed at the least 103 individuals in a single day into Sunday, hospitals and medics mentioned, as Israel intensified its conflict within the territory after greater than 19 months of preventing. The strikes additionally compelled the principle hospital in northern Gaza to shut.
Greater than 48 individuals have been killed in airstrikes in and across the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, in accordance with Nasser Hospital. Among the many lifeless have been 18 kids and 13 girls, a hospital spokesperson informed the Related Press.
In northern Gaza, a strike on a house within the built-up Jabaliya refugee camp killed 9 individuals from a single household, in accordance with the Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry’s emergency companies. One other strike on a household’s residence, additionally in Jabaliya, killed 10, together with seven kids and a girl, in accordance with the civil protection, which operates beneath the Hamas-run authorities.
A view of the destruction after an Israeli assault on Jabir household home within the Al-Saftawi area of Gaza on Might 18, 2025.
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Gaza well being officers mentioned that preventing across the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and an Israeli navy “siege” prompted it to close down.
The hospital was the principle medical facility within the territory’s war-wrecked north, after northern Gaza’s earlier important hospital, Kamal Adwan, was compelled to cease serving Palestinians final 12 months due to Israeli strikes, as was a second facility, Beit Hanoun Hospital.
The Israeli navy didn’t have a right away touch upon the in a single day strikes, however mentioned troops have been “operating against terror infrastructure sites in northern Gaza,” together with within the space adjoining to the Indonesian Hospital, with out offering extra particulars.
The bloodshed adopted the launch of a brand new operation geared toward placing extra strain on Hamas to launch hostages.
Israel says the brand new offensive, named “Gideon’s Chariots,” consists of plans to grab territory, displace a whole bunch of 1000’s of Palestinians to Gaza’s south and take management over the distribution of help. Additionally it is meant to ramp up strain on the U.S.-designated Hamas terrorist group to comply with a short lived ceasefire on Israel’s phrases – one that will free Israeli hostages held in Gaza however not essentially finish the conflict.
Hamas says it desires a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and a pathway to ending the conflict as a part of any new ceasefire deal.
The our bodies of those that misplaced their lives on account of an Israeli assault on the Shujaiya neighborhood within the japanese a part of Gaza Metropolis have been dropped at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza Metropolis, Gaza on Might 18, 2025.
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In the meantime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned his negotiating crew within the Qatari capital, Doha, was “working to realize every chance for a deal,” together with one that will result in an finish to the preventing in alternate for the discharge of all of the remaining 58 hostages, Hamas’ exile from Gaza and the disarmament of the Palestinian territory.
Hamas has refused to go away Gaza or disarm.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who spoke with Netanyahu on Saturday, informed “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan that america is “actively engaged in trying to figure out if there is a way to get more hostages out through some ceasefire-type mechanism.”
“We’re not going to do anything to undermine Israel and its security but by the same token, if there is a possibility here to find a way forward that frees more hostages, including those who are alive but also the bodies to their relatives, and potentially bring about an end to this war in a way that puts the people of Gaza on a pathway of peace and prosperity and being free of Hamas, we’re going to explore that,” he mentioned in an interview that may air Sunday.
A view of the destruction after an Israeli assault on Jabir household home within the Al-Saftawi area of Gaza on Might 18, 2025.
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Rubio acknowledged that there was some progress, with out giving any particulars, and mentioned Steve Witkoff, particular envoy to the Center East, is engaged on the problem on “an hourly basis.”
The conflict in Gaza started on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 individuals and abducting 251 others. There are nonetheless 58 hostages in captivity after a few of these hostages have been launched in prisoner swaps, and roughly three dozen have been killed. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed greater than 53,000 Palestinians, lots of them girls and kids, in accordance with the Hamas-led Gaza Well being Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
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