(17 Jul 2025)
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Southern Israel, near Gaza border – 17 July 2025
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Smoke was seen rising above the Gaza skyline on Thursday evening after another day of Israeli strikes.
The Israel military struck the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest who was an acquaintance of the late Pope Francis.
Separately, another person was killed and 17 wounded in a strike against two schools sheltering displaced people in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al-Awda Hospital.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike.
The Gaza Health Ministry said that over the past 24 hours, local hospitals received the bodies of 94 people killed in Israeli strikes and another 367 wounded.
There has been little visible progress in months of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas aimed at a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement, after Israel ended an earlier truce in March.
According to an Israeli official familiar with the details, Israel is showing “flexibility” on some of the issues that have challenged negotiators, including Israel’s presence in some of the security corridors the military has carved into the territory.
The war was triggered by Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 251 people taken hostage.
Most of the hostages have since been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals while 50 are still being held, less than half of them believed to be alive.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 58,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which has said women and children make up more than half of the dead.
It does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its tally.
The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government but is led by medical professionals.
The United Nations and other international organizations consider its figures to be the most reliable count of war casualties.
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