Israel kills 33 Gazans in a single night. It’s part of a new deadly status quo, Palestinians say.
A man and a child mourn by the covered body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli air strike, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City 19 November 2025
Tareq S. Hajjaj reports in Mondoweiss on 20 November 2025 :
The Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes on Wednesday targeting numerous sites in different parts of the Gaza Strip. The strikes included civilian targets in Gaza City and Khan Younis in urban neighborhoods and tent encampments.
In a statement on Thursday morning, the Gaza Ministry of Health said that 33 Palestinians had been killed, including 12 children and 8 women, and over 88 were injured in the past 24 hours. The Gaza Government Media Office said in a statement that an entire family had been “wiped off the civil registry” during one of the strikes.
The statement added that the Israeli army also carried out a ground assault in eastern Gaza City in a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement, adding that the army had effectively redrawn the “yellow line” — which cuts Gaza in half — roughly 300 meters deep into al-Sha’af, Nazzaz, and Baghdad streets, areas from which Israel had agreed to withdraw as part of the ceasefire’s first phase.
The Media Office added that the Israeli army “surrounded dozens of families living in those areas, who were unable to leave after being caught off guard as the tanks arrived.”
“The fate of many of these families remains unknown, as the area was targeted by heavy shelling,” the statement added.