Widespread Gaza strikes kill at least 33 people, Hamas-run authorities say

By Agencies and ToI Staff 18 May 2025, 9:06 am

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This picture taken from a position in southern Israel on the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke in Gaza during Israeli strikes on May 18, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says widespread Israeli airstrikes this morning killed at least 33 people, more than half of them children, amid the IDF’s expanded military campaign.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal says 22 were killed in a strike on several tents where displaced Palestinians were living in Al-Mawasi, in the territory’s south.

The figures cannot be independently verified and do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

According to Israeli officials, the operation will see the IDF “conquer” Gaza and retain the territory, attack Hamas, prevent the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies, and move Palestinians from Gaza’s north to its south.