On April 3, 2025, Palestinians were overcome with grief as they stood in front of the bodies of their relatives who had been killed in an Israeli air strike and brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. At least 100 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip.

      On April 3rd 2025, Palestinians were overcome with grief as they stood in front of the bodies of their relatives who had been killed in an Israeli air strike and brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. At least 100 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip in Israeli air strikes, Palestinian health officials said, with at least 27 killed in an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza. The school in the Tuffah area of Gaza City contained the bodies of 14 children and five women, and among the 70 injured there were also some seriously injured. According to records from the Al-Afri Hospital, more than 30 Gaza residents were also killed in the nearby Shijaiya area.

    The Israeli military said it had attacked a “Hamas command and control center” in the Gaza City area in an effort to reduce civilian casualties. It said it had also attacked Hamas militants at the command and control center when it attacked a United Nations building used as a shelter on April 2, killing at least 17 people.

    Israel issued a general evacuation order to the Palestinians from parts of northern Gaza prior to the ground operation. On January 19, 2025, Israel and Hamas began a ceasefire. Hamas handed over three hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army transferred the hostages to a medical facility and withdrew from the northern and southern Gaza Strip, releasing 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire and hostage agreement on January 19.

     On March 18, 2025, Prime Minister Netanyahu unilaterally withdrew from the ceasefire in Tel Aviv, Israel. The UN humanitarian office said that around 280,000 Palestinians had been displaced since Israel ended its truce with Hamas last month. Israel said on April 2, the day before, that it would establish a new security corridor across the Palestinian territory, occupying large parts of Gaza.

Warning: Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives , who were killed in an Israel airstrike, as they brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, on Thursday, April 3,2025. (Jehad Alshrafi-AP)