82 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 38 people waiting for aid, authorities say

Airstrikes and shootings killed 82 Palestinians successful Gaza overnight, including 38 portion attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday (July 3, 2025).

Israel’s subject did not person contiguous remark connected the strikes.

Five radical were killed portion extracurricular sites associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the recently created, secretive American enactment backed by Israel to provender the Gaza Strip’s population, portion 33 others were killed waiting for assistance trucks successful different locations crossed the Gaza Strip.

Dozens of radical were killed successful airstrikes that pounded the Strip Wednesday (July 2, 2025) nighttime and Thursday (July 3, 2025) morning, including 15 radical killed successful strikes that deed tents successful the sprawling Muwasi zone, wherever galore displaced Palestinians are sheltering and a onslaught connected a schoolhouse successful Gaza City sheltering displaced people.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the fig of Palestinians killed successful Gaza has passed 57,000, including 223 missing radical who person been declared dead. The Ministry doesn’t differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its decease number but says that much than fractional of the dormant are women and children.

The deaths travel arsenic Israel and Hamas inch person to a imaginable ceasefire that would extremity the 21-month war.

Mr. Trump said Tuesday (July 1, 2025) that Israel had agreed connected presumption for a 60-day ceasefire successful Gaza and urged Hamas to judge the woody earlier conditions worsen. But Hamas’ response, which emphasized its request that the warfare end, raised questions astir whether the latest connection could materialize into an existent intermission successful fighting.

The Israeli subject blames Hamas for the civilian casualties due to the fact that it operates from populated areas. The subject said it targeted Hamas militants and rocket launchers successful bluish Gaza that launched rockets towards Israel connected Wednesday (July 2, 2025).

The warfare began connected October 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led militants attacked confederate Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and taking astir 250 hostages.

The warfare has near the coastal Palestinian territory successful ruins, with overmuch of the municipality scenery flattened successful the fighting. More than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 cardinal colonisation has been displaced, often aggregate times. And the warfare has sparked a humanitarian situation successful Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands of radical hungry.