Palestinians wait to receive treatment at UNRWA’s health centre in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 28, 2025.
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Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Monday (April 28, 2025) killed at least 40 people across the Palestinian territory, which has been under an Israeli aid blockade for more than 50 days.

Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18. A ceasefire agreement that had largely halted the fighting for two months before that collapsed over disagreements between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose 2023 attack triggered the war.

Civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir said that 40 people had been killed since dawn on Monday (April 28, 2025).

They included eight persons who were killed in an Israeli strike on the Abu Mahadi family home in Jabalia, in the north of the territory.

“They were sleeping in their homes, feeling safe, when missiles hit… this scene makes the body shiver,” said Abdul Majeed Abu Mahadi, 67, who added that his brother was killed in the attack. “If a person looked at this scene, they would have seen children, women and elderly men cut into pieces, it makes the heart ache, but what can we do?”

The civil defence agency reported that another 10 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Al-Ghamari family home in the Al-Sudaniya area northwest of Gaza City.

A strike on the Al-Agha family home killed eight others in an area of Khan Yunis in the south, it added.

Fourteen others were killed in four separate strikes across the territory, the civil defence said, including one that hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Shafii camp, west of Khan Yunis. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday (April 28, 2025) that at least 2,222 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,314.

The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Militants also abducted 251 people, 58 of whom are still being held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.

Israel says its renewed military campaign aims to force Hamas to free the remaining captives.

President Donald Trump in his interview to The Atlantic denied that he asked his Justice Department to look into the legality of his running again in 2028, though he never doused the possibility, and in fact recently said that he was not joking about it. The Constitution prohibits anyone from becoming the president twice but he dropped hints earlier that there are some loopholes which can be worked out.
One such option is if Trump runs for vice president in 2028 with JD Vance running for president. If they win, JD Vance can resign, making way for the vice president Trump to become the president once again.
Amid speculations over whether this is something the Trump administration is looking at, his organization came out with Trump 2028 hats, T-shirts.

What Trump said to Atlantic

The Atlantic interview says: We asked Trump about a rumor we’d heard that he had tasked his Justice Department with looking into the legality of his running again in 2028. He said he hadn’t, but then seemed to leave open the possibility. Was this the rare democratic norm he was unwilling to shatter? “That would be a big shattering, wouldn’t it?” he mused, laughing. “Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter.” He noted, twice, that his supporters regularly shout for him to seek a third term, but concluded, “It’s not something that I’m looking to do. And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.” But not, it appears, a hard thing to profit from: The Trump Organization is now selling “Trump 2028” hats.

What Trump told to TIME

“I don’t know anything about, what, look, all I can say is this, I am being inundated with requests. I’m doing a good job. Great physical exam, and unlike every other president, I took the cognitive test and I aced it 100% and I bet you guys couldn’t get 100% on that exam. It’s a tough exam. You know, when you get into the mid questions, it gets to be pretty tricky and pretty tough, and the last questions are very tough, and I aced it. And I guarantee, I’d give you, I’d make a big, beautiful bet that you guys couldn’t ace it. But anyway. But look, it’s good to have you, it’s a very nasty interview. They don’t ask any of the good things,” Trump said about becoming JD Vance’s running partner in 2028.