Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, amid Antony Blinken’s trip to ease regional tensions, avoid war escalating
- Israeli air strikes overnight and early on Sunday killed at least 113 people in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, said its health ministry
- Blinken held talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah, who warned the US envoy against ‘the catastrophic repercussions of continuation of the aggression against Gaza’
The Israel-Gaza war raging in Gaza entered its fourth month on Sunday as the army again pounded the besieged Palestinian territory and US top diplomat Antony Blinken was back in the region seeking to avoid a wider escalation.
Israeli air strikes overnight and early on Sunday killed at least 113 people in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, said its health ministry.
It said two journalists were killed when their car was struck. The ministry, doctors, and witnesses identified them as Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for Agence France-Presse, and Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza who earlier lost his wife and two other children in an Israeli strike.
Israeli bombardment also claimed other civilian lives in the southern city of Khan Yunis and in the Rafah area near the Egyptian border, where many of the territory’s displaced people have sought refuge, AFP correspondents reported.
Relatives were mourning the dead at Khan Yunis’ European Hospital, among them Mohamed Awad, who wept over the body of a 12-year-old boy and listed other family members killed.
“My brother, his wife, his children, his relatives and the brothers of his wife – there are more than 20 martyrs,” he said.