19 people killed in Israeli strike at U.N. clinic sheltering displaced - Gaza's health ministry

Record ID: 1987754

  • Title: 19 people killed in Israeli strike at U.N. clinic sheltering displaced - Gaza's health ministry
  • Date: 2nd April 2025
  • Summary: DEBRIS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN, GADA OBEID, SAYING: "Displaced people, most of them coming from border areas, Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, these areas, they were sitting here in God’s protection, there is nothing here to tell you, normal people, women, children, they have nothing to do with weapons, they have nothing to do with anything related to the Jews (Isr
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  • Keywords: AFTERMATH GAZA ISRAEL JABALIA PALESTINIANS
  • Location: JABALIA & BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA
  • City: JABALIA & BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA
  • Country: Palestinian Occupied Territory
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA002357902042025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: **** CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES ****
    Gaza's Health Ministry said 19 people including children were killed in an Israeli strike on Wednesday (April 2) at a U.N. clinic in Gaza’s Jabalia being used to house displaced people.
    Israel's military said it had struck a building previously used as a clinic that it said was serving as a Hamas command and control centre to plan attacks, and that the military had used surveillance to mitigate the risk to civilians.
    Hamas denied using the building and called the Israeli accusation it did so a "blatant fabrication".
    Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population.
    In a statement, Defence Minister Israel Katz said evacuations would take place from areas where there was fighting, while urging Gazans to eliminate Hamas and return Israeli hostages as the only way to end the war.
    Gaza's Health Ministry said 41 people were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Wednesday.
    Israel invaded Gaza following the devastating attack on southern Israel by thousands of Hamas-led gunmen that killed 1,200 people according to Israeli tallies, and saw 251 taken as hostages.
    The Israeli campaign has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health officials, and ravaged the Gaza Strip, forcing almost the entire population of 2.3 million from their homes.
    (Production: Mahmoud Issa, Bassam Masoud, Joelle Kozaily)
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