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Scores killed in Gaza as Israel intensifies strikes | |
By Kareem Khadder | |
Updated: | |
4:57 PM EDT, Thu July 3, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
More than 80 Palestinians were killed across on Thursday, according to | |
health officials, as Israel intensified its strikes across the strip. | |
The deaths, which authorities said included dozens of people seeking | |
aid, come as in the enclave ramp up. A source told CNN that Hamas | |
officials were set to meet Thursday to prepare a response to the latest | |
proposal, which has been accepted by Israel. | |
At a school-turned-displacement facility in Gaza City, 15 people were | |
killed and 25 injured in Israeli strikes that left many with severe | |
burns, the director of Al-Shifa hospital Dr. Mohammad Abu Silmiya said. | |
The hospital is treating those wounded in the attack. | |
“The scene was extremely harrowing due to the charred bodies of the | |
martyrs and children,” said Fares Afana, who heads the Emergency and | |
Medical Services in northern Gaza, and had teams evacuating the injured | |
from the school. | |
The hospital director said another 12 people were killed in other | |
strikes in Gaza City. | |
In response to a CNN question on the school strike, the Israeli | |
military said it struck a “key Hamas terrorist who was operating in a | |
Hamas command and control center” in Gaza City. The Israeli military | |
said that prior to the attack, “numerous steps were taken to mitigate | |
the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, | |
aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence.” | |
Earlier this morning, the Israeli army said that over the past day it | |
struck “approximately 150 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, | |
including terrorists, underground routes, military structures, weapons, | |
sniper posts, and additional terror infrastructure sites.” CNN has | |
requested comment from the Israeli military on Thursday’s strikes. | |
Images taken at the scene of the attack in Gaza City showed flames | |
inside a building and several bodies that had been severely burned. | |
“Every so often, the Israelis would attack the school and bomb it, | |
forcing us to flee, then we would return when the Israeli pressure | |
eased. Today, as you can see, the pressure was intense,” said a | |
woman, who did not give her name. | |
In southern Gaza, 35 bodies arrived at the Nasser Hospital on Thursday | |
morning, according to the spokesman of Nasser hospital, Ahmad Al-Fara. | |
The death toll includes fifteen people who were allegedly killed while | |
waiting for aid in Khan Younis, and 20 others who died in strikes on | |
encampments in the city, the hospital said. | |
The aid seekers were waiting near the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian | |
Foundation (GHF) distribution sites in the Al-Tahliya area of southwest | |
Khan Younis when they were hit, according to the hospital. | |
“They said the American (GHF) is safe, is that what safety looks | |
like?” one man, Awad Barbach, said at the funeral of one of those | |
killed. | |
In another incident, in central Gaza near the Netzarim Corridor, crowds | |
gathered to receive aid from trucks when chaos ensued, a witness said. | |
Twenty-five people were killed in the incident, according to Abu | |
Silmiya, the Al-Shifa hospital director. | |
“It was a trap… people were stabbing each other for the food… | |
(then there was an) hour and a half of (Israeli) gunfire… we are not | |
Hamas or Fatah. I’m just a civilian who wants to eat, and instead I | |
find death,” one eyewitness, Ahmed Khella, told CNN. | |
“Where are (Hamas)?… they are all dogs,” he added. | |
Later on Thursday evening, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) | |
said seven people had been killed and 17 others injured while waiting | |
for aid in the Tahlia area east of Khan Younis. Ambulance crews | |
transported the injured and bodies of the deceased to Al Amal hospital, | |
PRCS said. | |
This story has been updated with additional developments. | |
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