At least 33 killed including children in Israeli strikes on restaurant, market in Gaza

CAIRO – 8 May 2025: Two Israeli airstrikes on a crowded restaurant and a market in Al-Wahda Street in Gaza City have killed at least 33 people, including women and children, and wounded over 86 more, according to medics and the Gaza health ministry on Wednesday.

Graphic videos posted on social media showed bodies on tables at the Thailandy restaurant, which was operating as a community kitchen, a dead man seated on a chair, and several children lying motionless on the ground covered in blood.

The Israeli army asserted that it is examining the reports.

At least 92 people, including women and children, have been killed in several Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported, quoting officials.

Among the dead are journalists Yahya Sobeih, who recently had a newborn daughter, and Nour Abdu.

Abdu was killed while covering an attack at a school turned shelter in Gaza City, which killed 16 people, according to officials at Al-Ahli Hospital.

The attacks come a day after an Israeli strike on a school sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians killed 27 people, including nine women and three children, according to officials from Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023, Israeli forces have killed over 52,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities.

Israel this week approved a plan to intensify its operations in Gaza, potentially seizing the whole enclave and forcibly displacing Palestinians to southern Gaza, while taking control of aid distribution alongside private security contractors.