22 people, including nine children and six women, were killed, and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted displaced civilians in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
GAZA CITY — Israeli bombardment kills more than 50 people in war-battered Gaza with the United Nations saying the military is “inflicting terror on the Palestinian population of Gaza City and forcing tens of thousands to flee”, Al JAzeera reports.
The death toll surges in early Israeli strikes on Palestinians with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City as the widely criticised attack to capture the main urban centre continues.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said in a statement that 22 people, including nine children and six women, were killed, and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted displaced civilians in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
Two more people lost their lives after a residential building was shelled in the same neighborhood, medical sources told Anadolu.
In the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, five people were killed and others were injured, while another civilian was killed in the Al-Ramla neighborhood by the Israeli army.
In the Tel Hawa neighborhood, the army targeted a vehicle carrying displaced Palestinians and killed two people and injured others.
On Sept. 21, the Israeli army announced it was escalating ground operations in Gaza City, which began on Aug. 11 with a large-scale attack, as part of a plan approved by the government to gradually occupy the Gaza Strip in August.
In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli strikes on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp claimed the lives of five Palestinians and injured many others, including women and children.
Five aid-seekers lost their lives to Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution site in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has killed more than 65,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023. Thousands more are believed buried under the rubble. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave uninhabitable and led to starvation and the spread of diseases. — Anadolu Agency with inputs from Al Jazeera
