By Abdul Adil
71 more Palestinians were killed, 153 others injured, in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, bringing number of Palestinians killed by Israeli bombings since October 2023 to 52,314 and injured to 117,792, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
Israeli warplanes struck a home in the southern city of Khan Younis in the early morning, killing eight people, the official news agency Wafa reported.
Three more people lost their lives, and many others were injured in another strike in the Al-Shafi’i displacement camp west of the city, Wafa added.
An Israeli airstrike hit a gathering spot for civilians in Gaza City, leaving nine people dead, a medical source told Anadolu Agency.
Another Palestinian was killed in the Abasan town in eastern Khan Younis, the source said.
According to the same source, three more Palestinians were killed in southwestern Gaza City, and seven members of a family in the north of the city by Israeli air attacks.
Israeli fighter jets hit another Palestinian home in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, leaving 10 people dead.
Six more civilians were killed and several others injured in another strike targeting a home in the northern town of Beit Lahia, the same source said.
Medics said that four dead bodies were removed from the rubble of a home in Khan Younis that was shelled by Israeli forces on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Israeli army released 11 more civilians on Monday from the Gaza Strip, who were detained by Israel.
The released Palestinians were set free at the Kerem Shalom (Karam Abu Salem) crossing in southern Gaza, the local Al-Aqsa radio said, citing witnesses.
A medical source told Anadolu that the 11 Palestinians were transported by vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the European Hospital in Khan Younis for medical checkups.
There was no comment from the Israeli army on the releases.
Meanwhile in occupied West Bank, Israeli army detained three Palestinians, including a husband and his wife, and demolished five homes on Monday, reported Wafa.
The three were taken into custody at an Israeli military checkpoint at an entry point to Nabi Salih town, west of Ramallah city in the central West Bank.
The three Palestinians were handcuffed and transported in a military vehicle to an unknown location, the witnesses said.
No reason was provided by the Israeli army for the arrests.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army demolished five more Palestinian homes in the southern West Bank, citing the lack of a construction permit.
According to witnesses, Israeli forces, escorted with bulldozers, raided the town of Idhna, west of Hebron city, and brought down the five buildings.
Two of the demolished homes were inhabited by nearly 30 people, while the three others were under construction, they said.
A Palestinian teenager was injured by live ammunition fired by Israeli occupation forces on Monday during a military raid on the Um Alsharayet neighborhood in the city of Al-Bireh.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed in a brief statement that a 17-year-old boy was wounded by live bullets during the Israeli forces’ incursion into the area
Security sources told Wafa that an Israeli military unit stormed the said area, sparking confrontations, during which Israeli soldiers fired live rounds and tear gas canisters at residents.
According to the sources, the Israeli army conducted identity checks on several residents and detained a young man during the raid.
In addition, illegal Israeli settlers placed concrete blocks on Monday around several water springs in the Khirbet al-Deir area of the northern Jordan Valley.
Omar Fuqaha, head of Ein al-Beida village council, reported that the settlers had installed the concrete blocks around certain springs, marking another effort to assert control over these water resources and restrict Palestinian access.
According to the Israeli information center for human rights in occupied territories, B’Tselem, Israel has instituted in this area a regime that intensively exploits its resources, to an extent greater than elsewhere in the West Bank, and which demonstrates its intention: de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area to the State of Israel.
Elsewhere, Israeli army bulldozers demolished five Palestinian homes Monday in the al-Ras area of the town of Idhna, west of Hebron.
Fuad al-Jiyawi told Wafa that the Israeli bulldozers demolished two homes belonging to the brothers Eid and Khalil Naim al-Jiyawi. These homes comprised two apartments, each occupying an area of 300 square meters and housing eight people.
Israeli forces also demolished two homes belonging to the brothers Muhammad and Osama Yousef al-Jiyawi, each covering an area of 150 square meters. Meanwhile, another house under construction was also demolished by the occupying forces.
Agencies
[Photo: Relatives of Palestinians mourn for their relatives who were killed by Israeli attacks, in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on April 28, 2025. Photojournalist: Ali Jadallah/AA]
