The Israeli occupation forces have intensified their military campaign in Gaza, marking 62 consecutive days of renewed operations and more than 590 days since the conflict first erupted.
The escalation follows Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to pull out of a proposed ceasefire deal, as the Israeli enemy continues to receive strong political and military support from the United States. The offensive comes amid growing frustration over the lack of action from the international community and neighboring Arab nations.
Widespread Bombardment and Mounting Casualties
According to Palestinian sources, Israeli occupation forces carried out dozens of airstrikes across the enclave on Sunday. The attacks coincide with severe restrictions on the entry of basic food supplies since early March, exacerbating famine-like conditions among Gaza’s population.
More than 102 people were reported killed since midnight in various parts of the Strip. Early Sunday, an airstrike on a home belonging to the Shuqlaq family in Al-Faluja, northern Gaza, killed three people and injured others.
Grieving Palestinians mourn their loved ones at the mortuary and yard of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after one of the deadliest nights since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli genocidal onslaught on Gaza.
At least 125 innocent civilians, including children and… pic.twitter.com/wi0PWcf8B6
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 18, 2025
Two journalists, Abdel Rahman Tawfiq Al-Abadleh and Yazan Jawda Al-Abadeh, were killed in an Israeli strike on al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis. Another journalist, Aziz al-Hajjar, was killed along with his wife and children in an airstrike on Be’er al-Na’ja in northern Gaza.
Civilian Homes, Displaced Shelters Targeted
In northern Gaza City’s Al-Saftawi area, 15 people—mostly women and children—were killed in an airstrike on a densely populated residential building, with others trapped under rubble. Additional strikes targeted homes in Beit Lahia, Deir Al-Balah, and Jabalia’s Tel Al-Zaatar area.
Moataz Wadea Salem, a Palestinian from Gaza, was killed this morning as a result of the indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes on the enclave.
He now joins his mother, wife, four daughters (Sham, Maria, Shams, and Mona), his sister, her husband, and their children, all of whom were… pic.twitter.com/t6ACZ7zwtr
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) May 18, 2025
Airstrikes on the Nasser family home near Khillet Station in Jabalia and shelters for displaced persons in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, claimed the lives of at least 40 people. Prominent journalist Nour Qandil, her husband Khaled Ahmed Abu Saif, and their daughter were also killed in an attack on their home in Deir Al-Balah.
Further strikes across the north and central Gaza killed five people, including children, and left many injured.
Ten civilians died in Jabalia, and 12 more in a separate strike on the Nasser family home in Jabalia Al-Nazla.
Nine members of the Ayyash family were also killed in an attack near Abu Anwar roundabout in northern Al-Zawaida.
Continued Strikes on Residential Areas
Additional fatalities were reported following strikes on the Farra family home in the Al-Fukhari district, east of Khan Younis, and renewed bombardment of Tel Al-Zaatar. Four bodies were pulled from rubble in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood after an airstrike on the Maqat family home in the al-Zarqa area.
At Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, two bodies and four injured individuals, including two children, arrived following an airstrike near Abu Anwar roundabout in Al-Zawaida.
A series of Israeli airstrikes targeted civilian homes in the vicinity Al-Awda Hospital in the Tel al-Zaatar neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip.
غارات إسرائيلية عنيفة في محيط مستشفى العودة في تل الزعتر شمال غزة. pic.twitter.com/Es3C4jER0i
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) May 18, 2025
Civil defense crews narrowly escaped a second strike while surveying a previous bombing site in Tel al-Zaatar. Nearby, a home was targeted near Al-Awda Hospital. Other strikes hit residential buildings in al-Sawarha west of Nuseirat, homes belonging to the Baraka family in Abasan, and the Masri family in al-Fukhari.
Numerous casualties were also reported in strikes on homes in al-Tuffah, as Israeli warplanes continued targeting areas near Al-Khair Hospital in western Khan Younis.
Source: Al-Manar Website
