At least 40 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza City

8/5/2025 6:13

At least 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in Israelis attacks in Gaza City on Wednesday, according to Palestinian medical sources.

Eyewitnesses told Xinhua that an Israeli drone fired at least one missile at a restaurant and a market in the al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City.

Medical sources told Xinhua that at least 25 people were killed in the airstrike, while dozens of others were wounded, most of them in critical condition.

The sources added that the injured people and bodies of the victims were taken to hospital, noting that the death toll is expected to rise.

Meanwhile, Gaza's civil defense authority said that at least 15 Palestinians were killed and 10 others wounded in two Israeli airstrikes on a school housing displaced people east of Gaza City.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the civil defense, said the Israeli army targeted Al-Karama School, which houses dozens of displaced families in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, in two separate attacks.

Basal said that among the victims were children and women. All of them were transferred to the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

The Hamas-run government media office in Gaza reported that journalist Nour al-Din Abdo was among those killed, raising the total number of journalists killed since Oct. 7, 2023, to 213.

In a statement, the office condemned the Israeli army's killing of Palestinian journalists and called on the international community to "condemn the occupation's crimes ... and bring the occupation's criminals to justice."

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on the airstrikes.

On March 18, Israel resumed its military operations in the enclave. At least 2,545 Palestinians have been killed and 6,856 others injured since Israel renewed its intensive strikes, bringing the total death toll since Oct. 2023 to 52,653, and injuries to 118,897, Gaza-based health authorities said on Wednesday.