Israel kills over 100 in Gaza as Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba
People surround a truck carrying the bodies of victims of Israeli attacks on Jabalia at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza before a funeral
Al Jazeera reports on 15 May 2025:
More than 103 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, deepening an already catastrophic toll after 19 months of unrelenting bombardment.
This comes as Palestinians mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled by Zionist paramilitary groups during the creation of Israel in 1948.
At least 59 people were killed overnight and into Thursday in a barrage of attacks on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials. Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex reported an influx of casualties, many of them children. In the north, Israel also struck Gaza City and Jabalia.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, described “another bloody day” in Gaza, as Israel intensified its air attacks on residential areas.
“Israeli warplanes directly targeted nine houses without any warning in the city of Khan Younis,” he said, adding that entire families were “completely wiped out”. He described the situation as chaotic, with civilians fleeing repeated forced evacuation orders. “The Israeli military targeted civilians while they were asleep,” launching 13 air raids on the Jabalia refugee camp and nearby areas. Civil defence teams, he added, are overwhelmed and struggling to rescue those trapped under the rubble, due to a lack of equipment.
Abu Azzoum said the strikes reflect a “pattern of attacks not aimed at military targets, but at systematically destroying Gaza’s social fabric”.