On Thursday, the 706th day of the ongoing genocide, Israeli forces continued their relentless assault on the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians in targeted attacks across the besieged enclave. Medical sources in Gaza Strip hospitals announced that the number of civilians killed Thursday has risen to 50, as a result of the continued Israeli bombing of homes and tents of the displaced, and the targeting of gatherings of citizens. This includes 17 aid seekers who were shot and killed by Israeli snipers and US mercenaries.
Seven Palestinians, including a child, died of starvation in Gaza within the past 24 hours, according to the Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, speaking to Al Jazeera.
These deaths are the latest consequence of Israel’s ongoing siege, which has blocked humanitarian aid and cut off access to food, water, and medical supplies.
On Thursday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that malnutrition rates among children in the Gaza Strip are increasing at an alarming rate, and that the latest data shows a record malnutrition rate for children in Gaza.
The organization said on Thursday that the percentage of malnourished children across Gaza increased to 13.5% last month from 8.3% in July. In Gaza City, where famine was the most concentrated, the number of children treated for malnutrition was higher, at 19%, compared to 16% in July.
Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, said that one in five children in Gaza City was diagnosed with acute malnutrition during the month of August/ August and needed additional life-saving nutritional support provided by UNICEF.
She pointed out that the organization was able to bring more supplies to the Gaza Strip. But she said the recent Israeli military escalation in the city this past week forced 10 feeding centers to close, leaving children more vulnerable.
She stressed the need to protect nutrition services in Gaza City and throughout the Strip, adding: “No child should suffer from malnutrition, which we can prevent and treat when we can reach and deliver aid safely.””.
The World Food Programme on Thursday reported that the entire population of Gaza—approximately 2.2 million people—is facing extreme levels of food insecurity.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification on August 22 declared the situation a state of actual famine, driven by Israel’s closure of border crossings and its deliberate restrictions on aid delivery.
Across the enclave, Palestinians are enduring starvation, displacement, and bombardment. Families are surviving in overcrowded shelters, makeshift camps, or damaged buildings with no access to clean water or nutrition.
The use of hunger as a weapon has turned Gaza into a zone of engineered deprivation, where death by starvation is no longer an exception but a growing reality.
Humanitarian organizations continue to warn that without immediate intervention, the death toll from famine will rise sharply. The siege has created conditions in which survival itself has become a daily struggle, and the deliberate denial of aid amounts to a crime of extermination.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, reported devastating destruction across the city in less than a week since Israel announced its “opening of the gates of hell”:
Casualties and missing Palestinians were reported following an Israeli airstrike on a residential home in Al-Shanti area, in Gaza City.
Twelve residential buildings over seven stories, containing roughly 500 apartments, were destroyed, displacing over 10,000 residents.
More than 120 buildings under seven stories (average three floors each) were hit, displacing over 7,200 people.
Over 500 buildings suffered partial damage, leaving around 30,000 people without shelter.
More than 600 tents housing displaced families were destroyed, displacing an additional 6,000 civilians.
Ten schools and five mosques were completely destroyed, leaving over 50,000 residents, including children, women, and the elderly, homeless amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
In the US, two Senators, Chris Van Hollen from Maryland, and Jeff Merkley from Oregon released a report detailing their findings on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza: “The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is complicit. The world must stop it…90 percent of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed or severely damaged. The Netanyahu government is also restricting the delivery of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, including using food as a weapon of war.”
The report states Israel has replaced hundreds of UN aid distribution points with just four sites for 2 million people, forcing malnourished mothers to travel long distances carrying heavy food boxes. At least 1,373 Palestinians were killed near these distribution sites from May 22 to July 31.
Van Hollen and Merkley condemned the U.S. government’s role, asserting that taxpayer support enables Israel’s actions. They called for an immediate ceasefire, warning that Netanyahu prioritizes political survival over civilian lives.
The following are some of the many Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza documented by local sources on Thursday:
10 pm
Israeli occupation aircraft struck a residential building in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, in Gaza City. Casualties are unknown at this time.
Casualties and missing Palestinians were reported following an Israeli airstrike on a residential home in Al-Shanti area, in Gaza City.
8 pm
Two citizens were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation army targeted a gathering of citizens in front of Al-Nuri Tower in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip
A Wafa news correspondent reported that two bodies arrived at Al-Awda Hospital, as a result of the Israeli occupation targeting a gathering of citizens, which also resulted in dozens of injuries.
The reporter pointed out that occupation aircraft have destroyed 15 homes in Gaza City since this morning, displacing hundreds of citizens and displaced people in its vicinity.
The occupation aircraft launched two raids on Gaza City, bombed a house on Al-Shifa Street, west of it, and destroyed the “Najm” building near the military clinic in Al-Shati camp in the same area, while an Israeli helicopter opened fire east of it.
Israeli occupation drones carry out an airstrike near Ramzoun Al-Jalaa in northern Gaza City.
4:55 pm
Four citizens were killed and others were injured today, Thursday, when Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a group of citizens in the Al-Katiba neighborhood, north of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Dozens were also injured when Israeli aircraft targeted a home belonging to the Abu al-Khair family, next to the medical clinic in the al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City. Meanwhile, the al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city, witnessed a series of airstrikes.
A Wafa news correspondent confirmed that since the morning, the occupation aircraft have destroyed 8 homes of citizens in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, belonging to the families of: Jadallah, Sammour, and Basal Abu Ajwa, Matariya, Hamouda, Taha, and Abu Al-Khair.
The ongoing Israeli occupation aggression on Gaza City has led to widespread destruction of infrastructure and residential areas in less than one week, in addition to the destruction that has befallen the city since the start of the war of extermination on October 7/ October 2023.
The data monitored showed that the occupation destroyed 12 residential buildings with more than 7 floors, including about 500 residential apartments, which led to the displacement and homelessness of more than 10,000 citizens. The occupation also bombed more than 120 buildings of less than 7 floors (an average of 3 floors per building), displacing more than 7,200 citizens.
The occupation partially damaged more than 500 buildings, depriving nearly 30,000 citizens of their shelter.
In a related context, the data indicated that: More than 600 tents housing displaced people were destroyed, and at least 6,000 additional citizens were displaced Complete destruction of 10 schools and 5 mosques.
The data showed that more than 50,000 citizens in Gaza, including children, women and the elderly, became homeless in less than a week, in light of a worsening humanitarian disaster.
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Medical sources confirmed that more than 16 Palestinians were killed, including at least 11 in Gaza City, with scores more wounded.
In eastern Gaza City, artillery shells struck the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, killing two civilians and injuring many others.
On al-Yarmouk Street, Israeli forces bombed tents sheltering displaced families, killing two Palestinians, including an infant, and wounding several more.
A massive Israeli airstrike destroys the Jadallah family home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, western Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/mX1lYU5mJ4
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 11, 2025
Several Palestinians were also injured in Israeli strikes targeting at least three homes in Gaza city’s Shati’ refugee camp.
In central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, one civilian was shot dead while seeking humanitarian aid, and others were injured.
In nearby al-Bureij camp, a child was killed and multiple residents wounded when soldiers opened fire on homes and streets.
In Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, two Palestinians were killed near an aid center, with several others injured.
The bombardment comes amid a mass exodus from Gaza City, where tens of thousands have fled under escalating military pressure. Israeli media estimates that approximately 200,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in recent weeks as the offensive intensifies.
Human rights organizations have condemned the assault. Amnesty International, quoted by Al Jazeera English, described Israel’s forced displacement orders as “cruel” and “unlawful,” warning that the offensive is deepening conditions that threaten the survival of Gaza’s civilian population.
The organization emphasized that such actions violate international law and constitute crimes against humanity.
The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. Families face impossible choices—whether to remain under bombardment or flee without access to safety, shelter, or basic necessities.
The scale of destruction and displacement reflects a deliberate strategy of collective punishment, carried out with impunity and devastating consequences for Gaza’s besieged population.
#GazaStarving pic.twitter.com/P5cLeIBs8y
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) September 11, 2025
The World Health Organization has declared its intention to remain in Gaza City despite Israeli military orders demanding mass evacuation.
Amnesty International has denounced the Israeli military’s directive to forcibly displace the population of Gaza City, describing the order as brutal and unlawful. The organization warned that such mass expulsion deepens the genocidal conditions already imposed on Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
#عاجل | قنابل حارقة يطلقها جيش الاحتلال تتسبب باحتراق خيام نازحين في مدينة غزة#Breaking | Israeli army launches incendiary bombs, igniting tents of displaced civilians in Gaza pic.twitter.com/bKBWM1FFrp
— أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) September 11, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped under bombardment, starvation, and displacement—forced to survive in overcrowded shelters or makeshift camps with no access to adequate services.
Amnesty emphasized that driving Palestinians into forced flight constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to war crimes.
The organization also criticized powerful states for continuing to supply Israel with weapons used to destroy Palestinian lives and infrastructure. It stressed that such complicity undermines global legal norms and shields Israel from accountability.
Video shows an Israeli air strike hitting an evacuated residential building in Gaza City that was housing forcibly displaced Palestinians. At least two Palestinians were killed, and many others wounded. pic.twitter.com/KdWJExqx52
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 10, 2025
Amnesty concluded that Israel’s disregard for repeated international warnings signals a clear intent to continue its campaign of collective annihilation in Gaza.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the directive, stating that the so-called humanitarian zone in southern Gaza lacks the capacity to support the population already sheltering there, let alone the influx of new arrivals.
He warned that abandoning Gaza City would further collapse the territory’s fragile health system, noting that nearly half of its remaining functional hospitals are located there.
Tedros called for urgent international action, including an immediate ceasefire and protection for civilians, medical personnel, and humanitarian workers. He stressed that the forced displacement of civilians under siege conditions violates international law and places countless lives at risk.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 64,656 Palestinians and wounded more than 163,503, most of them children, women, and the elderly. Thousands remain trapped under the rubble in areas inaccessible to rescue teams, as the genocide continues unabated.
