Anadolu staff
23 May 2025•Update: 23 May 2025
ISTANBUL
Israeli forces carried out attacks on multiple areas of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 32 Palestinians and injuring scores more early Friday morning, according to local media, medics and witnesses.
Israeli drones targeted more than five locations near the entrance to Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing 10 people and injuring several others, according to Palestine's official news agency Wafa.
When people rushed to help the victims, Israeli forces attacked them again, injuring several Palestinians.
Separately, three people, including a young girl, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment near Abdel Aal junction on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City.
Two siblings were killed, and their father was critically injured when an Israeli strike hit a home in the western camp area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
In eastern Khan Younis, 11 people were killed after Israeli forces hit a home in the town of Abasan al-Kabira.
Meanwhile, a 32-year-old man died of injuries sustained during an earlier airstrike on Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.
Israeli forces also detonated a robot near Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, causing extensive damage to the hospital and starting a fire in the medical supply warehouse.
Israeli forces prevented civil defense crews from extinguishing the blaze.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli artillery launched intense shelling at dawn across multiple areas in southern Gaza, including Qizan al-Najjar village and Abu Rashwan district south of Khan Younis.
They added that Israeli helicopters opened fire in the vicinity of al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.
Elsewhere, four people were confirmed dead after Israeli forces targeted a group of civilians east of Deir al-Balah, with their bodies taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the same sources said.
In a separate strike, at least one Palestinian was killed and others wounded when an Israeli missile hit a home in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, according to medical personnel.
Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 53,800 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
