Israeli strikes kill 60 in Gaza as Trump renews name for ‘freedom zone’ | EUROtoday

Israeli navy strikes killed a minimum of 60 individuals in Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian medics stated, as Donald Trump continued his Middle East tour by repeating his promise to take over the realm and “make it a freedom zone”.

Most of the victims, together with girls and youngsters, had been killed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in airstrikes that hit houses and tents.

The useless included native journalist Hassan Samour, who labored for the Hamas-run Aqsa radio station and was killed together with 11 relations when their house was struck, the medics stated.

There was no fast remark from the Israeli navy, which has intensified its offensive in Gaza because it tries to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the lethal assaults the Palestinian militant group carried out on Israel in 2023.

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With many of the 2.3 million individuals in Gaza internally displaced, some residents of the tiny enclave say struggling is larger now than on the time of the 1948 Nakba.

“The truth is, we live in a constant state of violence and displacement,” stated Ahmed Hamad, a Palestinian in Gaza City who has been displaced a number of occasions. “Wherever we go, we face attacks. Death surrounds us everywhere.”

Palestinian well being officers say the Israeli assaults have escalated since Trump began a go to to the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, a visit which many Palestinians had hoped he would use to push for a truce.

Little has come of recent oblique ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, led by Trump’s envoys and Qatar and Egyptian mediators in Doha.

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No humanitarian help has been delivered to Gaza since 2 March, and a worldwide starvation monitor has warned that half 1,000,000 individuals face hunger in Gaza.

In Abu Dhabi, the US president eliminated his footwear for a tour of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.

“It’s beautiful,” Trump stated.

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He sidestepped a reporter’s query on whether or not Israel has been an impediment to peace talks in Gaza.

Instead, Trump stated: “We’re working very hard on Gaza,” which he described as “a territory of death and destruction for many years”.

He added: “I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone, let some good things happen.”

Sheikh Zayed, founding father of the UAE, is buried within the mosque’s important courtyard.

AP and Reuters contributed to this report