Israeli forces kill 27 Palestinians, injure 180 others while waiting for humanitarian aid near center in southern Gaza
GAZA CITY — At least 76 Palestinians, including 27 aid seekers, were killed Saturday in Israeli airstrikes that hit multiple locations across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
An airstrike on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University in western Gaza City, killed a mother and her three children.
In the city’s eastern Al-Tuffah neighborhood, four women were killed and 10 other civilians wounded when an Israeli missile hit a house near Yaffa School.
Three members of the same family were killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City after an airstrike targeted a residential apartment.
Two more Palestinians were killed in a separate strike on a home in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood.
An Israeli airstrike targeted a house near al-Shafi’i Mosque in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, killing seven civilians and injuring others, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Three more people were killed and others injured after Israeli warplanes struck a group of civilians in al-Blakhia area of Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Deadly attacks
In the central Gaza Strip, a child was killed and several people were injured when a home near Al-Hassaina School west of the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed.
Medical sources said an Israeli drone also struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mansura area of Deir al-Balah, killing seven Palestinians, including four of the same family.
Two women were also killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment in the eastern part of the city.
Near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, three Palestinians were killed when a tent sheltering displaced people was targeted.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, 11 Palestinians, including children and a woman, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed tents sheltering displaced families near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Al-Mawasi area.
Separately, rescue teams recovered the bodies of two more victims from the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood in Khan Younis.
In Rafah, at least 27 Palestinians were killed and 180 others injured when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid north of the southern city, medical sources said.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops fired directly at crowds gathered near the Al-Shakoush aid distribution point, where hundreds had assembled in hopes of receiving food and basic supplies amid worsening famine conditions in the besieged enclave.
Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, killing over 57,800 Palestinians so far, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages and the spread of diseases.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave. — AA
