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Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Medics claim 72 Palestinians killed today in Gaza Strip
A column of fire and smoke erupts following Israeli strikes of areas east of the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on June 18, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Gaza’s civil defense agency claims that Israeli fire killed at least 72 people in the Strip, including 21 who had gathered near an aid distribution site in central Gaza.
Updating an earlier figure, the Hamas-linked civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal tells AFP the death toll had risen to 72, “due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip since dawn today — 21 of them were waiting for aid.”
The claim could not be independently verified.
The IDF told AFP that troops had fired warning shots at suspects approaching them in the Netzarim area where the civil defense agency said 15 people were killed waiting for aid, but that it was “not aware of any injured individuals.”
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