Israeli airstrikes have continued for the 31st consecutive day since the resumption of the genocide, targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip. The attacks have resulted in significant deaths and injuries, with many of the victims being women and children. Fires caused by missile strikes on tents have led to devastating casualties among displaced families.
The Palestinian Civil Defense announced that the Israeli military committed another massacre against Palestinian civilians, adding that its medics recovered over 15 bodies, most of them women and children, following an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced families on the edge of Al-Estabel Street in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
The bombing ignited fires in tents where entire displaced families sought shelter, burning bodies and seriously injuring survivors.
Many Palestinians, including children and women from the Abu ar-Roos family, were burnt to death in the tent fire.
The slain Palestinians included Amna Abdul-Karim Abu ar-Roos, Mahmoud Ahmed Abu ar-Roos, Nahed Zayed Abu ar-Roos (Umm Ahmad), Tahrir Ibrahim Abu ar-Roos (Umm Omar), Noor Zoheir Abu ar-Roos and his siblings Ahmad and Farah, as well as the child Ahmad Nidal Abu ar-Roos, his brother Saif, and sister Aya.
Another tent in Khan Younis was targeted, resulting in the deaths of Mahmoud Mohsen Hijab and his child Mohsen. Israeli missiles also killed at least two Palestinians and caused several injuries in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.
Seven members of the Asaliyya family were killed, and 13 others injured, in an Israeli drone strike on a tent sheltering displaced families in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza. The victims included Ghassan Raed Asaliyya, his wife, and all their children, following the targeting of their tent on new Interior Ministry Street.
In Beit Lahia, also in northern Gaza, six Palestinians were killed and many injured due to an Israeli strike on a tent for displaced families in the Razan area of the Beit Lahia project. Two civilians were also killed in a strike on a house in the Tuffah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City. The Israeli military also demolished residential buildings in the eastern areas of Gaza City.
Israel is besieging and starving over two million people for the second month in a row…
Where is the free world, and where are the values of humanity? pic.twitter.com/6fJirk7Y2W— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) April 16, 2025
Two Palestinians were killed, and others injured, in a drone strike near the Mills Junction, south of Al-Baraka area in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military also bombed a food distribution center in Nuseirat, resulting in the death of Basil Al-Shaer and inflicting several injuries.
An entire family was wiped off the civil registry in Beit Lahia tonight: the israelis don’t care who they kill, how many die or who’ll they’ll kill next pic.twitter.com/pkxLzse7cZ
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) April 16, 2025
Furthermore, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported that 25 bodies, including three recovered from rubble, and 89 injured individuals arrived at hospitals in the past 24 hours.
The total death toll from the ongoing genocide in the devastated Gaza Strip has risen to at least 51,025, with 116,432 injured since October 7, 2023. Since March 18, 2025, the toll stands at 1,652 deaths and 4,391 injuries.
