Israeli strikes kill at least 62 people in Gaza as ceasefire prospects move closer

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK
Updated 9:11 AM CDT, June 28, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 62 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving.

Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were struck while sleeping, relatives said.

“What did these children do to them? What is their fault?” said the children’s grandmother, Suad Abu Teima, as others knelt to kiss their bloodied faces and wept. Some placed red flowers into the body bags.

Also among the dead were 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more in apartments, according to staff at Shifa Hospital. More than 20 bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to health officials.



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[claudette]

1. What cease fire?

Israel will NEVER cease killing innocents. And America is helping them do it Disgraceful

[Lonestarblue]

2. The IDF is executing as many as 50 starving Palestinians every day as the line up to get food.

I’m sure those starving women and children are all Hamas trainees!

[AloeVera]

3. Have you seen this? The killing at aid sites is deliberate, systematic and on orders from military leaders.

From Haaretz:

Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.

Conversations with officers and soldiers reveal that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds to drive them away or disperse them, even though it was clear they posed no threat.

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"It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

The soldier added, "We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces." According to him, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons." He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".

IDF officers told Haaretz that the army does not allow the public in Israel or abroad to see footage of what takes place around the food distribution sites. According to them, the army is satisfied that the GHF's operations have prevented a total collapse of international legitimacy for continuing the war. They believe the IDF has managed to turn Gaza into a "backyard," especially since the war with Iran began.

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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000


https://archive.is/MqNQl

The fish rots from the top. Soldiers have been told there are no innocents in Gaza, everyone is a legitimate target. So it's been a killing field since the beginning, just not as evident as now. Shooting and shelling starving people is truly a low that no one should be defending or projecting blame. Yet it will still happen, no doubt. But the excuses, rationalizations, attacks and denials are looking increasingly pathetic and transparently false.

But when you believe Palestinians are less than human, ordering the killing of the starving and carrying out those orders becomes normalized. Except to the brave few calling out the bullshit and lies.

[Bayard]

4. Killing non-humans

Jesus Pete! This reminds me so much of the U.S. government's war on Indigenous people here. Israeli people are not seeing the footage. We should enlighten them to the atrocities being committed by their government.