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Monday, April 7, 2025
At least 17 killed in overnight Gaza strikes, health officials say
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Israel struck tents outside two major hospitals in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least two people, including a local reporter, and wounding another nine, including six reporters, medics say.
Fifteen others were killed in separate strikes across the territory, according to hospitals. The figures cannot be independently identified.
A strike on a media tent outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis at around 2 a.m. set the tent ablaze, killing Yousef al-Faqawi, a reporter for the Palestine Today TV station, and another man, according to the hospital. The six reporters were wounded in that strike.
The Israeli military says it struck a Hamas terrorist, without providing further information. The military says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because it is deeply embedded in residential areas.
Israel also struck tents on the edge of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, wounding three people, according to the hospital.
Nasser Hospital says it received another 13 bodies, including six women and four children, from separate strikes overnight. Al-Aqsa Hospital says two people were killed and three wounded in a strike on a home in Deir al-Balah.
The Times of Israel Community.