(3 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 3 April 2025
1. Various of destruction after Israeli airstrike
2. People looking through rubble
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Abu Elian, Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"Around 3 o’clock in the morning, they blew up this house. It’s (like) an earthquake, as you can see, destruction, destruction in every sense of the word. There are many martyrs, a man, his wife, his daughter, his son, his second and third sons, and his wife was also pregnant, she had just become pregnant and they were happy that God had given him a child, but it was their fate that they would all die tonight."
4. Various of bags of diapers on rubble
5. Various of woman standing at door of destroyed house
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza Strip, Gaza City – 3 April 2025
6. Various of people gathering and praying near wrapped bodies lying on ground
7. Various of people carrying wrapped bodies
STORYLINE:
Overnight strikes by Israel killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Thursday, a day after senior government officials said Israel would seize large areas of Gaza and establish a new security corridor across the Palestinian territory.
Officials in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the strip, said the bodies of 14 people had been taken to Nasser Hospital – nine of them from the same family.
The dead included five children and four women.
The bodies of another 19 people, including five children aged between 1 and 7 years and a pregnant woman, were taken to the European hospital near Khan Younis, hospital officials said.
Israel has vowed to escalate the nearly 18-month war with Hamas until the militant group returns dozens of remaining hostages, disarms and leaves the territory.
Israel has imposed a month-long halt on all imports of food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle.
In Gaza City, 21 bodies were taken to Ahli hospital, including those of seven children.
The Israeli military ordered the residents of several areas — Shujaiya, Jadida, Turkomen and eastern Zeytoun — to evacuate on Thursday, adding that the army “will work with extreme force in your area.”
It said people should move to shelters west of Gaza City.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel was establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacuated, from the rest of the Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu referred to the new axis as the Morag corridor, using the name of a Jewish settlement that once stood between Rafah and Khan Younis, suggesting it would run between the two southern cities.
He said it would be “a second Philadelphi corridor ” referring to the Gaza side of the border with Egypt further south, which has been under Israeli control since last May.
Israel has reasserted control over the Netzarim corridor, also named for a former settlement, that cuts off the northern third of Gaza, including Gaza City, from the rest of the narrow coastal strip.
Both of the existing corridors run from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Western-backed Palestinian Authority, led by rivals of Hamas, expressed its “complete rejection” of the planned corridor. Its statement also called for Hamas to give up power in Gaza, where the militant group has faced rare protests recently.
He called on Gaza residents to “expel Hamas and return all the hostages,” saying “this is the only way to end the war.”
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