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UN: 'Food supplies exhausted in Gaza'. Wafa: 'Family with 3 children exterminated'

Five members of the same family were killed in the early hours of Friday morning when Israeli forces shelled their tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

25 April 2025[Aggiornato il 25 aprile 2025, ore 15:20]

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Haaretz: "New evidence on paramedic killing contradicts Idf"
Idf chief: "Without hostage return we will expand operations in Gaza"

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The UN World Food Programme has announced that it has exhausted all its food supplies for families in Gaza.

'The situation inside the Gaza Strip has once again reached a breaking point,' reads the organisation's website, 'people no longer know how to react and the fragile progress made during the brief ceasefire has been shattered. Without urgent action to open the borders to the entry of aid and trade, crucial Wfp assistance may be forced to cease'.

The Wfp therefore 'urges all parties to prioritise the needs of civilians and to allow the immediate entry of aid into Gaza, respecting their obligations under international humanitarian law'.

Family in a tent exterminated by the Idf

Five members of the same family were killed in the early hours of Friday morning when Israeli forces shelled their tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

This was reported by Wafa - the official state news agency of the Palestinian National Authority - explaining that it was a man, his pregnant wife and their three children. In addition, a 3-year-old boy died from severe burns suffered in a fire that broke out in another tent in the same area. According to local sources, Israeli artillery also shelled the Qizan al-Rashwan neighbourhood, south-west of Khan Younis.

Haaretz: "New evidence on paramedic killing contradicts Idf"

New developments have emerged regarding the killing of 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip last month, with evidence contradicting the IDF's claim that soldiers did not fire indiscriminately at aid workers.

The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that its analysis of IDF materials, collected as part of an internal investigation into the incident, contradicts the army's version that soldiers did not open fire indiscriminately at Palestinian ambulances and a fire truck in the early hours of 23 March.

According to Haaretz, however, soldiers allegedly fired continuously at the vehicles for three and a half minutes from close range, despite the attempts of the health workers to identify themselves.

Gaza, i primi soccorsi dopo un attacco israeliano su Khan Yunis

The family of Assad al-Nsasrah, one of the two survivors of the attack, petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday for details on his detention in Israel.

Israeli authorities confirmed last week that Nsasrah is in custody, but under emergency wartime legislation, the whereabouts of detainees from Gaza can be kept secret and contact with a lawyer denied for 45 days. Nsasrah will not have access to a lawyer before 7 May.

Idf chief: "Without hostage return we will expand operations in Gaza"

The chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), Eyal Zamir, warned that Israel could extend military operations in the Gaza Strip if there is no progress in the release of hostages held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. During a visit to troops in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah,

Zamir stated: 'If we do not see progress in the return of the hostages, we will expand our activities into a more intensive and meaningful operation until a decisive result is achieved'.

He added that Hamas was 'wrong about our capabilities, intentions and determination'.

The Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, also issued similar threats, stating that the longer Hamas holds hostages, the more severe the blows Israel will inflict. Katz also suggested that Israel might permanently occupy parts of the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities believe 24 hostages are still alive in the Strip, while Hamas and its allies hold the bodies of 35 others.