GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, May 18, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Gaza's civil
defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 33 people,
more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded
military campaign.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 22 people were killed and
at least 100 others wounded in a predawn attack on tents sheltering displaced
Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Seven people were killed in a strike on a house in northern Gaza's Jabalia,
Bassal said, while the Al-Awda hospital in the same area reported damage.

Deaths were also recorded in the cental area of Al-Zawayda and in Khan Yunis,
in the south, according to Bassal.

The Israeli military announced on Saturday it was intensifying its operations
across Gaza in a bid to defeat Hamas militants after more than 19 months of
war.

The stepped-up campaign comes amid growing international concern over
worsening humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian territory due to an
Israeli aid blockade.