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Southern Israel overlooking the Gaza Strip – 1 July 2025
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1. Wide of explosion over Gaza skyline, smoke rising
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A large blast was seen over the Gaza Strip early Tuesday as Israeli strikes continued in the enclave.
The strike comes as two U.S. administration officials said US President Donald Trump was expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks at the White House next Monday, with the U.S. leader stepping up his push to broker a ceasefire and hostage agreement and bring about an end to the war.
The officials were not authorized to comment publicly on the visit that hasn’t been formally announced and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said
One airstrike hit Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City when it was crowded with women and children, said Ali Abu Ateila, who was inside.
Dozens were wounded, many critically, alongside at least 30 people killed, said Fares Awad, head of the Health Ministry’s emergency and ambulance service in northern Gaza.
Two other strikes on a Gaza City street killed 15 people, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties.
A strike on a building killed six people near the town of Zawaida, according to Al-Aqsa hospital.
The war has killed over 56,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
It says more than half of the dead were women and children.
The Hamas attack n October 2023 that sparked the war killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 others hostage.
Some 50 hostages remain, many of them thought to be dead.
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