“LIKE APOCALYPSE”
Khan Yunis resident Mohammed Sarhan advised AFP that Gaza’s major southern metropolis “felt just like the apocalypse”.
“There was gunfire coming from each residence, fireplace belts, F-16 warplanes and helicopters firing,” he mentioned.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee referred to as on Gazans within the metropolis and close by areas to “instantly” depart the “harmful fight zone”.
AFPTV footage from Khan Yunis’s Nasser Hospital confirmed a younger boy in a tracksuit being handled as two different boys, each barefoot and bleeding, sat on the ground.
Additional north in Deir el-Balah, Ayman Badwan mourned the lack of his brother in an assault.
“We’re exhausted and drained – we won’t take it anymore,” he advised AFP.
Hamas’s October 2023 assault on southern Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,218 folks, largely civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally primarily based on official figures.
Militants additionally took 251 hostages, 57 of whom stay in Gaza, together with 34 the army says are lifeless.
Gaza’s well being ministry mentioned Monday that no less than 3,340 folks have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the conflict’s total toll to 53,486.
With negotiators assembly in Qatar in current days, Netanyahu has signalled that Israel was open to a deal that would come with “ending the combating”, with all hostages launched, Hamas leaders exiled and Gaza disarmed.
