(16 May 2025)
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Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 16 May 2025
1. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike, UPSOUND, explosions of tanks shelling
2. Smoke rising, UPSOUND, explosions of tanks shelling
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Air strikes killed at least 20 people in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning, as Israel continued to pound the Palestinian territory.
An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, where they were brought.
Survivors said many people were still under the rubble.
The strikes lasted hours, sending people fleeing from the Jabaliya refugee camp and the town of Beit Lahiya and followed days of similar attacks that killed more than 130 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
In addition to the airstrikes in northern Gaza, there were also strikes on the edge of Deir al-Balah in cenral Gaza and just outside the southern city of Khan Younis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier in the week to push ahead with a promised escalation of force in Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip to pursue his aim of destroying the Hamas militant group, which governs Gaza.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strikes.
The widespread attacks across northern Gaza come as U.S. President Donald Trump finished his visit to Gulf states but not Israel.
There had been widespread hope that his regional visit could usher in a ceasefire deal or renewal of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
An Israeli blockade of the territory is now in its third month.
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