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muriel_volestrangler

(102,477 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 05:04 PM Oct 25

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 72 across Gaza

Source: The Guardian

In the central town of Khan Younis, 38 people, including at least 13 children from the same family, were killed in airstrikes early on Friday, hospital records showed. Relatives cradled their bruised and broken bodies in the morgue of the nearby European hospital before they were buried, in some cases several children to a shroud.
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Meanwhile, in northern Gaza, where Israel on 6 October launched a fierce new offensive that critics say is designed to force the remaining population to flee, internet and phone service blackouts mean it is unclear what happened in a reported Israeli airstrike overnight on a block of houses in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
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In a video posted to social media late on Thursday, Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera journalist from Jabaliya, said a total of 150 people had been killed and wounded in a huge airstrike that flattened 11 buildings, although there has been almost no official account of the strike from health officials owing to Israeli ground forces and communications difficulties.
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A civil defence spokesperson, Mahmoud Bassal, also said the death toll was believed to be 150. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/25/israeli-airstrikes-kill-across-gaza

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 72 across Gaza (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 25 OP
Shame. More destruction and killing. Apparently the appetite for it is endless. brush Oct 25 #1
Trump told Netanyahu to do what he needed to Easterncedar Oct 25 #2

Easterncedar

(3,521 posts)
2. Trump told Netanyahu to do what he needed to
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 05:18 PM
Oct 25

Fuck I hate this. Netanyahu has squandered almost all sympathy. Damn him to hell. I think he may destroy Israel himself.

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