On Friday, Day 102 since the resumption of the genocide in Gaza on March 18 (when Israel broke the ceasefire after just 53 days), the Israeli army continued bombing and shelling various areas across the devastated, starved, and besieged coastal enclave, killing 74 Palestinians, including 13 people shot while trying to obtain aid from the US mercenary company “GHF”.
Medical sources confirmed that the death toll from ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn today has risen to 74, including 13 people killed in the US-created ‘Hunger Games’ style arenas where people are forced to fight for scraps of food aid.
Two separate massacres of displaced Palestinians living in makeshift tent cities resulted in the deaths of at least 21 civilians on Friday, including 5 children and an infant, whose bodies were pulled from the charred remains of their burned tents.
Israeli forces also continued wiring and detonating Palestinian homes and buildings in multiple areas of the Gaza Strip, particularly in Jabalia in northern Gaza and the eastern districts of Gaza City.
10:13 pm
Eleven Palestinians were killed and others injured on Friday evening when Israeli warplanes bombed tents housing displaced people near Palestine Roundabout in Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Wafa news correspondents said that Israeli aircraft bombed tents housing displaced people near the Holy Family School in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, killing 11 civilians and wounding others.
8:30 pm
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that searching for food in the Gaza Strip should never be a death sentence.
Guterres added at a press conference in New York on Friday, ahead of his departure to Seville on Saturday to attend the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, which the United Nations is co-hosting with Spain, that “Israel, as the occupying power, is required under international law to approve and facilitate humanitarian relief.”
“Families have been displaced time and time again, and are now confined to less than a fifth of Gaza’s land, and even these shrinking spaces are under threat. Bombs are falling on tents, on families, on those who have nowhere left to flee. People are being killed simply for trying to feed themselves and their families.”
6:40 pm
Thirteen Palestinians, including two children, were killed and dozens were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed schools and tents housing displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a group of civilians near the Martyrs’ Roundabout in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing six and wounding dozens.
He also reported that Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes targeting the area surrounding the Halima al-Sa’diya School, which houses displaced persons in Jabalia al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip, killing three civilians and wounding others, including children.
Three civilians, including two children, were also killed when an Israeli drone bombed a tent housing displaced people in Khan Yunis camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
Our correspondent confirmed that a female citizen was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted an apartment building near the Palmyra Junction in central Gaza City.
In this context, a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported the death of the 3-month-old baby girl, Jourie Al-Masry, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, due to starvation and a shortage of baby milk, as a result of the Israeli siege imposed on the Strip and the continued closure of the crossings .
2:31 pm
Fourteen Palestinian citizens, including five children, were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on northern and southern Gaza Strip .
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the occupation committed a new massacre, killing at least eight civilians, including five children, after airstrikes on the Osama Bin Zaid School, which was sheltering displaced persons in the Saftawi area, northwest of Gaza City.
Specialized crews and civilian volunteers recovered a number of people killed, including an infant, whose bodies were charred remains. The bombing also caused widespread destruction in the area.
Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital reported that six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
This bombing comes hours after 10 civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians near Shaaban al-Rayyes School in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City. The victims were transferred to the Arab Baptist Hospital in the city.
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11:16 am report
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost district, at least one Palestinian was killed and several other injured by Israeli military fire near an aid distribution center, in the northeastern part of the city.
Medical sources in Gaza confirmed that two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded early Friday when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent sheltering displaced civilians in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
This is not a movie scene or AI-generated footage—it’s real. A journalist from Gaza captured the moment Israel targeted a residential neighborhood full of innocent civilians. pic.twitter.com/7RX0lBZLXr
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) June 26, 2025
The victims were identified as Dr. Ayman Suleiman Abu Tair and his niece, Amira Mohammad Abu Tair, who were killed in an airstrike on Street 5 in Al-Mawasi. Dr. Abu Tair had previously lost his mother, wife, and children in an earlier Israeli bombing.
Separately, Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis reported receiving the bodies of three Palestinians killed in Israeli drone strikes on the neighborhoods of Bani Suheila and Sheikh Nasser, east of the city. One of the victims was identified as Hamada Mohammad Saleh Al-Akkad.
The body of another Palestinian was also recovered following a bombing in Al-Qarara town, north of Khan Younis.
The complex confirmed it had received 11 slain Palestinians since dawn, in addition to numerous wounded from several Israeli attacks in the south.
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza, reported receiving the body of another slain Palestinian and 43 wounded civilians after Israeli forces targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid along Salahuddin Street, south of Wadi Gaza.
Israeli artillery also bombarded the Shuja’iyya and Tuffah neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City. Meanwhile, Israeli naval vessels opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the Gaza City coast, killing fisherman Hasan Ali Miqdad.
Furthermore, at least eight Palestinians were killed, and ten wounded, in an Israeli bombing of the Tuffah neighborhood, in the eastern part of Gaza city, before they were transferred to the Baptist Hospital in the city.
Fishermen in Gaza face regular lethal attacks while risking their lives to provide for their families under siege and constant bombardment.
The Israeli military also carried out widespread demolitions of homes and buildings, deploying explosive-laden robots around Masoud Street, east of Jabalia in northern Gaza.
Similar artillery assaults targeted Khan Younis, where residential structures in the city’s northern districts were also blown up.
“What are you saying ?!
Revive him, maybe he’s still alive!”🚨BREAKING: A child in shock after his younger brother was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a group of civilians in Al-Nuseirat Camp, central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/kikZWjmK2R
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) June 26, 2025
Medical sources further confirmed that two infants died on Thursday due to severe malnutrition and the continued lack of infant formula under the ongoing blockade and genocidal assault.
The children were buried after their families collected their bodies from Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. Both died after being denied access to basic nutrition and healthcare.
Last week, medical authorities warned of an imminent health catastrophe threatening the lives of newborns amid near-total depletion of infant formula under escalating siege conditions.
Mahmoud Sharab, the uncle of five-month-old Nidal, confirmed his nephew died from acute food shortages. Several other children at the hospital, he said, are in similar condition and urgently need therapeutic formula.
Mohammad Al-Homs, the father of 10-day-old Kinda, said his daughter died of malnutrition and a critical lack of medicine.
Healthcare officials estimate at least 244 Palestinians, primarily infants, children, and the elderly, have died from preventable conditions due to food and medical shortages. The latest deaths underscore the deepening humanitarian disaster across Gaza.
In related developments, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Thursday that the organization had delivered its first shipment of medical supplies to Gaza since March 2.
In a statement on X, he described the shipment of nine aid trucks as “a drop in the ocean,” given the massive scale of humanitarian needs. The trucks carried essential medical supplies, including 2,000 units of blood and 1,500 units of plasma. Distribution to priority hospitals is expected in the coming days.
Yesterday @WHO delivered its first medical shipment into #Gaza since 2 March – 9 trucks carrying essential medical supplies, 2000 units of blood, and 1500 units of plasma.
The supplies were transported from Kerem Shalom, without any looting incident, despite the high-risk… pic.twitter.com/umwGRNXvXM
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) June 26, 2025
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, stated during the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that it is no longer possible to meaningfully discuss a “right to health” in Gaza. She pointed to the devastating impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide and blockade, which have rendered health access nearly impossible.
“Given the scale and scope of violations against Palestinians, there can be no credible discussion of the right to health in Gaza,” she said. Mofokeng noted that since October 7, 2023, healthcare facilities, personnel, and infrastructure have been deliberately and repeatedly targeted.
“The situation grows worse each passing day,” she added. “Even food aid, intended to stave off starvation, is being weaponized to target civilians seeking basic nourishment.”
She further condemned Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid, stating, “UN agencies are being blocked from delivering assistance to the occupied territory.” This obstruction, she warned, perpetuates a continuous cycle of violence.
🧵Yesterday, for the first time in nearly 4 months, aid trucks finally reached @AneraOrg‘s warehouses in Gaza, a small breakthrough after relentless Israeli restrictions and the use of organised looting gangs to block and steal humanitarian supplies over the past months.
But… pic.twitter.com/FCvevvurrH
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) June 26, 2025
Describing the crisis, Mofokeng characterized it as “imperialist and colonial violence” inflicted on a defenseless civilian population. She concluded that the United Nations and international community possess the legal tools to end the atrocities but lack the political will to act.
Separately, medical officials told Al Jazeera that at least 72 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours alone by Israeli strikes across Gaza.
Gaza’s Government Media Office reported that 549 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access humanitarian aid over the past four weeks, with a further 4,066 injured at or near distribution points run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 56,259 Palestinians—including 16,507 children, 9,803 women, and 254 journalists—and wounded 132,458 more, most of them children, women, and the elderly. Thousands remain missing beneath the rubble of bombed homes, streets, and alleyways.
