Most of the fatalities are reported from Khan Yunis, according to EFE news agency's sources within the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. The total death toll is uncertain, but the civil defense in Hamas-ruled Gaza tells AFP that at least 94 people have been killed on Thursday.
Images from Khan Yunis display the horrors of war. Two men hold each a bundle: small bodies in blood-stained sheets, barely a meter each. A bandaged man appears to collapse at the sight of his deceased relatives. A small boy lies alone, lifeless in an ambulance; a baby with closed eyes is wrapped in a blanket with colorful rabbits. A boy with a shattered face has open eyes, but his gaze has frozen.
Most of the dead and injured are taken to Nasser Hospital, according to AP's photographer in Khan Yunis. Some bodies arrive in parts, according to the photographer. Some body bags are said to contain remains of several different people.
Trump: Will become a "freedom zone"
US President Donald Trump says he is "working very hard" to reach a solution in Gaza. Terror-listed Hamas must be handled, he says in Qatar, according to The Times of Israel - and claims again that the US wants to "take" Gaza.
Gaza has been an area filled with death and destruction. But the US will engage and it will become a freedom zone, Trump claims.
I would be proud if the US had it, took it, transformed it into a freedom zone, let good things happen. Let people live in homes where they can be safe.
Wednesday was also marked by extensive Israeli attacks on Gaza. At least 70 people were killed, more than 20 of them children.
Hospital out of operation
On Thursday, the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, which was bombed by Israel earlier in the week, announces that the hospital is out of operation after the attacks. This means that cancer patients are left without the possibility.
"The attacks caused extensive damage," reads a statement from the Hamas-ruled Gaza health department.
The target of the attacks on the European Hospital is said to have been Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar. According to the Israeli military, a "terror tunnel" was found under the hospital after the attack, but according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the military's published aerial footage instead showed a tunnel located in a nearby school. The school in question did not receive any damage in the attacks.
