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by IMEMC News
April 3, 2025

UPDATE 3:10 PM: Israeli attacks have killed at least 62 in Gaza today, including 37 in Gaza City. Residents told Al Jazeera that they are digging for survivors with their bare hands, searching since 5am local time this morning.

At least 15 Palestinians were killed in a series of air strikes on a former school-turned-shelter located in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The Israeli military claimed the shelter for displaced Palestinians was another “command and control complex” used by Hamas to attack Israel, but offered no evidence – and the bodies that were pulled out were mainly children and their families. No explosives or weaponry were found anywhere on site. The Israeli military has a history of fabricating cover stories about ‘Hamas’ when killing Palestinian civilians with impunity. No international investigation has been launched during the past eighteen months of genocide and fabrications – but previous investigations have found the Israeli military’s accounts to be completely false and misleading.

The death toll from the Israeli shelling of a tent housing displaced people in Gaza’s al-Mawasi area has risen to four. The tent camp at al-Mawasi – near Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah – is one of the most overcrowded areas in a landscape devastated by nearly 18 months of relentless Israeli bombardment. The Israeli-described “safe evacuation zone” has sustained repeated deadly attacks by the military.

Footage from al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza City shows mourners gathered around bodies laid on the floor wrapped in white shrouds after at least 15 people were killed in an Israeli attack on the area.

Raed Jundia recounted to Al Jazeera what it was like surviving the Israeli air attack on his home in Shujayea. “We were about 70 to 80 people inside the apartment when there was suddenly an explosion,” he said.

Ezz al-Arqan, another Gaza City resident, said: “Every day we wake up to the sound of bombs, shells, and bullets. How long will this continue? Every day we wake up to 20, 30 or 40 killed.”

Gaza’s Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal said the strikes targeted several homes and “there are still a number of people trapped under the rubble”.

Updated from:

8:11 AM

8 Killed Before Dawn, Israeli Bombing Continues

On Thursday before dawn, Israeli forces continued their ongoing assault on the 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, bombing tents of displaced Palestinians west of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, killing 8 and wounding a number of others.

Local sources confirmed that eight members of the Al-Aqqad family were killed when Israeli forces targeted a house and tents housing displaced persons in the Al-Katiba area, west of Khan Yunis.

A short while ago, a citizen, his wife, and three of his children were killed, along with another citizen, and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources announced on Wednesday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip had risen to 50,423, and the number of injuries to 114,638, since October 7, 2023.

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