An Israeli soldier stands on a tank near the border between Israel and Gaza, in Israel, on May 17, 2025. (Credit: Amir Cohen/Reuters.).
Gaza's Civil Defense announced Saturday that 10 people were killed in Israeli bombings, after the army announced it was intensifying its offensive aimed at defeating Hamas.
These new raids come as the humanitarian situation in the besieged territory continues to deteriorate, with one of its last functioning hospitals warning that it was "overwhelmed" by the number of casualties.
Ten bodies were brought to hospitals across the Gaza Strip following strikes Saturday morning, said Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for the Civil Defense, a rescue organization, to AFP.
Three people were killed and four injured in drone strikes east of the city of Khan Younis in the south, he specified, while three others were killed and several injured in the bombing of a house in Jabalia, in the north.
An attack on an apartment northwest of Khan Younis killed three people, he added, while another person was killed and five injured, including a girl and a pregnant woman, in a strike on a tent west of the same city.
The Israeli army had announced earlier Saturday that it had carried out "large-scale strikes" on Gaza and expanded its offensive in the territory in order "to achieve all the objectives of the war, including the release of hostages (kidnapped on October 7 in Israel, ed) and the defeat of Hamas."
These operations were launched as Israel is internationally called to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, which it has been blocking since March 2.
The director of the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, near Jabalia, Marwan Sultan, described to AFP a "tragic and catastrophic" situation, after a bombing Saturday morning nearby. The facility is overwhelmed with patients and injured individuals and is critically short "of blood units, medicine, medical and surgical supplies" to the point of "no longer being able to accommodate critical cases."
Sultan indicated that doctors were forced to draw blood from other patients, or even from themselves, "due to the impossibility of obtaining donations from certain people because of malnutrition."