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Videoscreen shot footage - attacks kill only women, children
Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025
<<Israeli forces bomb al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, forcing patients to flee
The missile destroyed parts of the hospital, including its emergency department.
Israeli forces have bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, the largest remaining functioning hospital in northern Gaza, destroying its emergency unit, main entrance and medical oxygen supplies. Critically ill patients were left on the street after fleeing the attack in the early hours of Sunday morning, with one doctor reporting that at least three people, including a child who was on oxygen, died due to the rushed evacuation. According to the Reuters news agency, the hospital staff began evacuating patients from the building after a man said he received a call from someone identifying himself with Israeli security, shortly before the attack. Authorities in Gaza have condemned the bombing, noting that al-Ahli Hospital was treating hundreds of patients when it was hit by at least two missiles. About 500 people were killed when Israel bombed the hospital in October 2023. Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals in the Palestinian enclave with impunity throughout its devastating war. The Gaza Media Office says Israel has targeted 36 hospitals since it launched its war on October 7, 2023. The Israeli military said the hospital was targeted because it was being used as a “command and control” centre by the “terrorist organization Hamas”. In a post on X, it said that “steps were taken to reduce the chance of harm to civilians and the hospital, including providing early warning in the area….” Israel has in the past claimed that attacks on civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, are necessary to target armed fighters. It has, however, not provided proof to back its claims. The Government Media Office in Gaza described the attack as a “flagrant violation of all international charters and the Geneva Conventions prohibiting the targeting of medical facilities”. It said in a statement that al-Ahli Hospital was “one of the oldest and most important health institutions” in Gaza, describing the bombing as a “heinous” and “terrible” crime. The Palestinian group Hamas described the attack on the hospital as a “new war crime”, and said the Israeli military had no regard for humanitarian laws and norms. It held the United States responsible for the “brutal crime”.
‘Dramatic escalation’
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, in northern Gaza, said the bombing was a “dramatic escalation”. “Critically ill patients, including those in the surgical and emergency units, are now left without shelter or oxygen,” he said. “Some, in fact, may die, not just from the attack itself, but from the loss, now, of this medical care.” Razan al-Nahhas, an emergency doctor currently working in central Gaza, who previously worked at al-Ahli Hospital, said at least three people, including a 12-year-old boy with a head injury, have been reported dead following the forced evacuation. “He was on oxygen, as were the two other patients, and the family basically walked with them to a nearby hospital, a very small facility with no capacity for the number of patients heading their way. And they [the patients] arrived dead,” said al-Nahhas, who is in the city of Deir el-Balah. Al-Nahhas said the attack damaged “the lab, the pharmacy, the emergency department, all the oxygen tanks” at al-Ahli Hospital. “There are so many patients on the streets,” she added, “I can’t even imagine the scene of patients and their family members scattered in the streets, trying to find their way to a place for medical care.” “They’re very high-risk patients that need to be closely monitored, not lying or scrambling in the streets trying to find their way to another medical facility.” “It’s quite horrific, and it’s really left the people in that region with no place to go at this point. And it’s an area that the surrounding areas are very heavily targeted, unfortunately,” she said, referring to Israel’s continued bombardment of northern Gaza. The attack came after Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,560 people in Gaza, since they broke their ceasefire with Hamas on March 18. According to Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, at least 500 children are among the dead since Israel resumed the offensive last month. A total of 50,933 people have been killed and 116,045 wounded since the start of the war in October 2023, the ministry added in its latest daily update. Earlier on Saturday, Israel ordered residents of southern Khan Younis and central Nuseirat to leave immediately, warning of imminent attacks “with great force”. Also on Saturday, the Israeli military said it had encircled Rafah, cutting it off from the rest of Gaza. The forced displacement orders came as Hamas said it had fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory on Saturday. The Israeli military said its air force intercepted all three rockets. No casualties were reported.>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/israeli-forces-bomb-al-ahli-hospital-in-gaza-forcing-patients-to-flee


Videoscreen shot footage - Gaza’s Christian hospital out of service on Palm Sunday
Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025
Israeli forces put Gaza’s Christian hospital out of service on Palm Sunday
Israel has bombed al-Ahli Hospital, putting northern Gaza’s last functioning medical facility out of service. Critically ill Palestinian patients, including amputees and burn victims, were forced to flee the Christian hospital before dawn on Palm Sunday with only a moment’s notice.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/4/13/israeli-forces-put-gazas-christian-hospital-out-of-service-on-palm-sunday


Videoscreen shot footage - Israeli strikes leave northern Gaza's last functioning hospital
Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025 - By Nils Adler and Maziar Motamedi
<<LIVE: Israeli bombs put Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital out of service
Israeli strikes leave northern Gaza's last functioning hospital completely out of service
Condemnation after an Israeli attack renders al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City out of service.
The attack comes after the Israeli military issued new displacement orders for residents of the central Nuseirat refugee camp as well as southern Khan Younis. A Hamas delegation is in Cairo for truce talks hosted by Egyptian mediators.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,912 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,981 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/13/live-israel-threatens-more-attacks-as-it-cuts-off-rafah-from-rest-of-gaza

Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025
<<Gallery
Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital targeted by Israeli missiles
The last functioning hospital in northern Gaza is now out of service after the latest missile attacks.
Israeli forces have targeted Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital with missiles, destroying the emergency unit and putting the only functioning hospital in northern Gaza out of service, according to Al Jazeera correspondents. Health officials at the hospital evacuated patients, while some of them, including critically ill patients, were forced to flee after the Israeli military issued a warning before the attack. The air strike came “minutes after the army’s warning to evacuate this building of patients, the injured and their companions”, the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said in a statement on Sunday. “The bombing led to the destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units,” it added. Hospitals, protected under international humanitarian law, have repeatedly been hit by Israeli air raids in Gaza since the start of the war on the enclave on October 7, 2023. “Critically ill patients, including those in the surgical and emergency units, are now left without shelter or oxygen,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in northern Gaza, said. Razan al-Nahhas, an emergency doctor currently working in central Gaza who previously worked at al-Ahli Hospital, said at least three people, including a 12-year-old boy with a head injury, were reported dead following the forced evacuation. The Israeli military said the hospital was targeted because it was being used as a “command and control” centre by the “terrorist organization Hamas”. In its statement, Gaza’s Government Media Office condemned the attack as a “heinous and filthy crime”, saying Israel “deliberately destroyed and rendered out of service 34 hospitals as part of a systematic plan to dismantle what remains of the healthcare sector in the Gaza Strip”. In October 2023, an attack on the hospital had killed 500 people. Israel has repeatedly attacked hospitals in the Palestinian enclave with impunity throughout its devastating war.>>
View photos here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/4/13/gazas-al-ahli-hospital-targeted-by-israeli-missiles


Videoscreen shot footage - At least 100,000 protesters
Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025 - By Nils Adler and Maziar Motamedi
<<At least 100,000 protesters rally for Gaza in Bangladesh’s capital
At least 100,000 protesters filled the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in a massive rally for Gaza. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and demanded an end to Israel’s relentless assault.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/4/13/at-least-100000-protesters-rally-for-gaza-in-bangladeshs-capital

Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025
<<Israel’s attack on al-Alhi Hospital in Gaza City draws global condemnation
Qatar says strike was ‘horrific massacre’ and the UK calls for end to Israel’s ‘deplorable attacks’, which WHO also condemns.
A predawn Israeli strike on al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, the last major hospital providing critical healthcare in northern Gaza, has sparked condemnation in Palestine and across the world as Israel continues to attack healthcare facilities. Israel on Sunday claimed it struck a Hamas command and control centre at the hospital, without providing evidence, while Hamas denied the allegations. The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which runs al-Ahli Hospital, condemned the attack, saying it occurred on “Palm Sunday, the start of the Holy Week, the most sacred week of the Christian year.” It said the twin strikes demolished the hospital’s two-storey genetic laboratory and damaged the pharmacy and the emergency department buildings. The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, which is affiliated with the Anglican Church, said the attack constituted “a grave violation of religious sanctity and fundamental principles of international humanitarian law”. The head of the committee, Ramzi Khoury, asserted that the attack was a direct affront to Palestinian Christians and the global Christian community. Britain’s Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell said in a statement on Sunday: “The Anglican-run Ahli Hospital in Gaza is a place of healing and care for Palestinians living through unimaginable suffering. In unbearable conditions, its heroic doctors and nurses have cared for civilians who have endured 18 months of devastating violence”. “For the only Christian hospital in Gaza to be attacked on Palm Sunday is especially appalling. I share in the grief of our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Jerusalem,” he said. Gaza’s Health Ministry said the bombing forced the evacuation of patients and staff. “We call on international institutions and relevant authorities to protect the health sector in accordance with international laws and agreements,” it said in a statement. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said the “heinous aggression” was “part of a systematic series of attacks targeting hospitals, schools, shelters and tents for the displaced in Gaza, within the context of a systematic war of extermination that violates all humanitarian and moral standards”. PIJ blamed Israel for sowing panic among patients and staff by issuing a warning shortly before the strike. “The international silence on Gaza is forcing it to become a graveyard for law and humanity,” it added. A gurney lies amid the debris in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, in Gaza City on April 13, 2025. International condemnation: ‘Attacks on health care must stop’ Hospitals have special protection under international law. Israel has besieged and raided them nevertheless, some several times, and struck multiple ones while accusing Hamas of using them as cover for its fighters. Last month, Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the largest hospital in southern Gaza, killing two people and causing a large fire. Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the hospital was out of service and a child had died as a result of the disruption of care. The hospital was also forced to move 50 patients to other health centres, but 40 critical patients could not be moved, Tedros added. “Attacks on health care must stop,” the WHO chief wrote on X. “Once again we repeat: patients, health workers and hospitals must be protected. The aid blockade must be lifted. Ceasefire.” British Foreign Minister David Lammy said Israel’s bombing of medical facilities had “comprehensively degraded access to healthcare” in the enclave. “Al-Ahli Hospital has been attacked repeatedly since the conflict began. These deplorable attacks must end. Diplomacy not more bloodshed is how we will achieve a lasting peace,” Lammy wrote on X. Qatar said the attack on the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza was a “horrific massacre and a heinous crime against civilians” that constituted a grave violation of international humanitarian law. The Foreign Ministry warned about the expansion of the cycle of violence across the region and said the international community must assume its responsibilities in protecting civilians. Jordan also condemned the attack as well as Israel’s systematic targeting of civilians in Gaza and the destruction of vital facilities that provide essential services to its population. Egypt, too, issued a statement, calling the attack a grave violation of international humanitarian law and international norms and appealing for the international community’s intervention in halting the attacks. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock questioned the modalities of the strike but stopped short of condemning the attack. “The cruel Hamas terror must be combated. But international humanitarian law applies, with a special obligation to protect civilian areas. How can a hospital be evacuated in less than 20 minutes?” she asked in a post on X.>>
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/israels-attack-on-al-alhi-hospital-in-gaza-city-draws-global-condemnation


Videoscreen shot footage - How the sick and injured fled the bombed Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital -
Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025 - By Maram Humaid
<<Al Jazeera's Maram Humaid reports from Gaza's bombed-out al-Ahli Hospital
How the sick and injured fled as Israel bombed Gaza’s al-Ahli Hospital
Gaza City, Gaza – Yousef Abu Sakran was dozing next to his injured child and wife, Iman, in a tent ward at al-Ahli Arab Hospital when the sounds of people running and shouting woke him up. He stepped into the hospital courtyard well before dawn on Sunday to ask what was happening but found no clear answer, only vague news that the Israeli army had made calls to people living around the hospital, demanding the expulsion of everyone in the medical facility. The 29-year-old father reacted instantly. He scooped up his five-year-old son, Mohammad, and he and Iman ran towards the gate. Mohammad has severe injuries across his body, including third-degree burns on his back and legs, but Yousef had to keep running with him. “I was carrying my son, whose body was burned, and running while he screamed,” Yousef said. “His back was bleeding – his wounds were bleeding heavily – and he was screaming in agony. “[So many people’s] injuries reopened from the sudden movement. I saw the family of a girl with spinal injuries trying to pull her bed, but it was stuck in the debris. “Just seconds after we left the hospital, it was struck by two missiles that shook the entire place. I told my wife: ‘Imagine if we had been a minute later. We’d be dead.'”
Where to go with an injured boy?
Yousef and his wife were in the street with everyone else from the hospital. “It was around 2am, and I had no idea where to take my injured son. He was in pain and bleeding. There were no clinics or hospitals, and the tent we live in is very far and completely unsuitable for his condition.” Mohammad had been injured in an Israeli air strike on a block of homes in Gaza’s Shujayea neighbourhood, which killed more than 20 people and wounded dozens. An hour after the hospital was bombed, Yousef and his wife decided there was nothing they could do other than take Mohammad back to al-Ahli. “The place was pitch-black, and it reeked of gunpowder and dust. I went to the surgery building at the far end of the hospital, where I found a nurse who took pity on Mohammad’s condition, treated his wounds and admitted him.” Bombing a hospital like this, Yousef said, is a stain on humanity’s conscience. “They bomb our homes over our heads and then bomb hospitals while patients and the wounded are inside. Where are we supposed to go?
“Isn’t all this grief and suffering enough?”

A damaged gurney and rubble litter - Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera
Dragging himself out of danger
Suhaib Hamed, 20, was asleep in another tent ward, right next to the hospital’s emergency building, which was hit. Hamed was injured when he went to fetch flour for his starving family on February 29, 2024 – a day known as the “Flour Massacre“, during which Israel killed 109 Palestinians and wounded dozens while they waited for food aid. He was shot in the leg by Israeli tanks, damaging his bones and tissue to the point that he needed metal implants and has been in the orthopaedic department since then. “My brother, who usually stays with me, wasn’t there. I don’t even know how I managed to stand on my injured leg, grab my crutches and flee,” Suhaib told Al Jazeera as he exited the surgery department after having the wounds to his leg cleaned and checked. “I forgot my pain because of what I saw around me. Everyone was screaming in terror and fear, just trying to survive. It felt like the Day of Judgement.” Suhaib also managed to get out of the hospital minutes before two Israeli missiles landed. “My leg couldn’t handle it any more, and my wound reopened and started bleeding again.” He couldn’t keep walking, so he stopped and called his brother, who came and supported him to their home in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, a half-hour’s walk for a healthy person on undamaged roads. The pain in his leg kept Suhaib up, but he was also worried about the hospital being forced to close. “I’ve been staying in the hospital [for more than a year] because of my condition,” he said. Suhaib has a medical referral to travel outside Gaza for treatment but has been waiting to leave for a year. “Isn’t the closure and banning of our travel enough? They even target the hospital that was still treating us with the little that’s available.”
Making a catastrophic situation worse
The Israeli strike on al-Ahli has exacerbated an already catastrophic situation for Gaza’s healthcare system, which has been collapsing as Israeli bombardments and a blockade on medicines, medical supplies and fuel continues. In the panic that ensued because Israel did not give hospital staff even the bare minimum of time to evacuate patients, a child died due to lack of oxygen, Fadel Naeem, director of al-Ahli, told Al Jazeera. Israel destroyed the vital emergency, radiology, laboratory and central pharmacy departments, the doctor continued. “We’ll need weeks or months to resume operations,” he noted. “This hospital is a hub for services and includes all essential facilities, including the only CT scan machine available. “The fate of patients and the wounded is now unknown. We’ll have to distribute them to other hospitals, but no hospital is equipped to provide full services.”
Video: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/how-the-sick-and-injured-fled-as-israel-bombed-gazas-al-ahli-hospital

Al Jazeera - April 13, 2025
<<Timeline: Israel’s attacks on hospitals throughout its war on Gaza
List of some of the severest Israeli attacks on the healthcare system in Gaza since October 23, 2023.
An Israeli air raid has left the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, forcing critically ill patients onto the streets.
The latest attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Sunday comes as Israel seized a corridor south of the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive after breaking up a ceasefire in March. Gaza’s Civil Defence said the Israeli air force targeted a building of the hospital in the early hours on Sunday. The Israeli army and the Shin Bet agency claimed, without providing evidence, to have targeted a Hamas “command and control complex” in the hospital. Gaza’s healthcare facilities have been targeted repeatedly, including with 2,000-pound bombs made in the United States. Al-Ahli Hospital is one of at least 36 hospitals that have been bombed and burned by the Israeli military since the start of the war. Targeting of health facilities, medical personnel and patients is considered a war crime under the 1949 Geneva Convention.
Here’s a list of some of the major attacks on healthcare in Gaza since October 2023:
October 17, 2023
Hundreds of people sheltering in the car park of al-Ahli Hospital were killed in an Israeli attack, according to Palestinian health officials. In the days leading up to the incident, the hospital director reportedly received warnings from Israel. Israel attributed the explosion at the facility to a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an allegation denied by the armed group.
November 3, 2023
An ambulance convoy was destroyed by an Israeli air attack outside al-Shifa Hospital, resulting in many Palestinian deaths.
November 21, 2023
An air raid on al-Awda Hospital killed Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad al-Sahar of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and another doctor, Ziad al-Tatari.
January 22, 2024
Several people were killed while sheltering about 150 metres (about 500 feet) from the entrance of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Evacuees sheltering in the area suffered due to fighting and forced evacuation orders.
March 20, 2024
The Israeli military said it killed 90 people in its raid on al-Shifa Hospital during a siege as displaced Palestinians sheltering in the facility described long detentions and abuse. Hamas condemned the “bloody massacre” in the hospital and said civilians, patients and displaced people were among those killed.
March 31, 2024
Many people were killed and injured in an air raid on the yard of Al-Aqsa Hospital, just outside the emergency room where many internally displaced people were sheltering.
April 1, 2024
A 14-day siege of al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the enclave, by Israeli forces saw hundreds of people killed, including medical staff, and mass arrests of its staff and others.
October 14, 2024
An Israeli air attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah killed five people and wounded 65. Tents of displaced people caught fire while people were sleeping.
December 28, 2024
The Israeli army arrested Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, after refusing to follow orders to abandon one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza. His arrest came a day after the military killed approximately 20 Palestinians and apprehended about 240 in a raid inside the hospital, which was one of the “largest operations” conducted in the territory until that time.
November 2023
Israeli forces laid siege to the Indonesia Hospital in Beit Lahiya for days. The Israeli forces left the hospital in ruins, with charred and decomposing bodies piling up in corners.
January 4, 2025
The Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza was put out of service following repeated attacks by Israeli forces, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
March 23, 2025
Israeli forces reportedly shot 15 Palestinian medics, working for the Palestine Red Crescent Society, dead during a rescue mission in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood. A video recovered from the mobile phone of one of the killed Palestinian medics showed Israeli forces’ involvement, igniting widespread outrage.
Videoo: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/13/timeline-israels-attacks-on-hospitals-throughout-its-war-on-gaza
Over 1,560 killed since Israel broke Gaza truce
At least 1,563 people have been killed since Israel resumed offensive on March 18, as humanitarian situation worsens in Gaza.
12 Apr 2025
The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza since Israel broke a ceasefire with the Palestinian armed group Hamas last month has now exceeded 1,560, according to health officials.
In a new statement on Saturday, the Health Ministry in Gaza said Israeli attacks had killed at least 21 people in the latest 24-hour reporting period, bringing the overall number of fatalities since Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on March 18 to 1,563. Hundreds of them were children, according to rescuers.
A total of 50,933 people have been killed and 116,045 wounded since the start of the war in October 2023, the ministry added in its latest daily update.
On Saturday, an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Tuffah neighbourhood killed at least people and wounded two children. Two other Palestinians were killed in al-Atatra district of Beit Lahiya, in the northern part of Gaza, with another killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Qizan an-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis. Several casualties were also reported following Israeli air raids on the tent shelters of civilians in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, which Israel had designated a so-called “safe zone”.
Reporting from outside al-Ahli Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said a newborn named Sham had succumbed to her wounds after her family was hit in an attack. “She was in very critical condition where her arm was amputated and she died a couple of hours later, because her injury was very critical and doctors were unable to help her situation,” she said. Khoudary reported that the ambulances arriving daily to the hospital have mostly been carrying children and women. “Due to the lack of medical supplies, most of these Palestinian children and women are witnessing a very deteriorating situation,” she added.
‘Post-apocalyptic’
On Friday, Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, reported that 36 of the 224 documented Israeli strikes in Gaza, between March 18 and April 9, involved killings of women and children. In a statement, the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq said the findings by the UN further confirmed a pattern it previously identified. “Such a calculated effort to exterminate women, boys, girls & even infants, has not been witnessed in any other modern conflict,” Al-Haq said in a post on social media. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Upfront, UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini described the situation in Gaza as a “post-apocalyptic” killing zone. Speaking at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkiye on Friday, Lazzarini also reiterated that Israel has been preventing the entry of food, fuel, medicine and other vital humanitarian supplies into Gaza since early March, contravening international law. In a separate post on X on Saturday, UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma warned that all basic supplies “are running out” in Gaza. “It means babies, children are going to bed hungry.” Israel has pledged to press on with its military offensive, with officials in recent days outlining plans to seize new swaths of territory in southern Gaza and issuing a series of forced displacement orders. “Palestinians do not know where to go,” Khoudary said, after the latest Israeli orders on Saturday for Shujayea and Khan Younis. According to UNRWA, some 400,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced across Gaza since the fragile ceasefire that took effect in January collapsed almost a month ago.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/12/at-least-500-gaza-children-killed-since-israel-broke-truce-official

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