Israeli assaults kill at the least 21 individuals in Gaza, medics say

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at the least 21 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip on Thursday (June 26, 2025), native well being authorities stated, as mediators reached out to Israel and Hamas to hunt a resumption of ceasefire talks to finish the struggle.

Native well being authorities stated an Israeli airstrike killed at the least 9 individuals at a college housing displaced households within the Sheikh Radwan suburb in Gaza Metropolis, whereas one other strike killed 9 individuals close to a tent encampment in Khan Younis within the south of the enclave.

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Three different individuals have been killed by Israeli gunfire and dozens have been wounded as crowds awaited U.N. help vehicles alongside a principal route in central Gaza, medics stated, the newest in a collection of a number of fatalities at help distribution factors.

There was no rapid remark from the Israeli navy on Thursday’s incidents. Israel says it’s in search of to get rid of militants from Hamas, which attacked southern Israel from Gaza in 2023, and free hostages nonetheless held by the group.

The brand new deaths come as Arab mediators, Egypt and Qatar, backed by america, reached out to the fighters in a bid to carry new ceasefire talks, however no precise time was set for a brand new spherical, in response to Hamas sources.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads a coalition with far-right events, insists that Hamas, which has dominated Gaza for almost twenty years, launch all hostages, relinquish any position and lay down its weapons to finish to the struggle.

Hamas, in flip, has acknowledged it will launch the hostages if Israel agrees to a everlasting ceasefire and withdraws from Gaza. Whereas it has conceded it will now not govern Gaza, Hamas has refused to debate disarmament.

Hamas-led militants killed near 1,200 individuals and took 251 hostages after they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, in response to tallies from Israel, which launched an enormous navy marketing campaign in response.

Israel’s retaliatory struggle has to date killed greater than 56,000 Palestinians, in response to native well being authorities, and destroyed a lot of the coastal strip.

A lot of the hostages launched to date have been freed by way of oblique negotiations between Hamas and Israel.