On Friday, July 4, Israeli forces dropped bombs on the al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ for the third day in a row, killing dozens of civilians. This was just one of the numerous bombings and shellings carried out Friday by the Israeli military against the starved, besieged and unarmed civilian population of 2.3 million people imprisoned inside the Gaza death camp.
Intense Israeli shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip began early in the morning Friday and continued through the afternoon and into the evening — as has been the case every day in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Today marks day 635 of Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza, and day 107 since the Israeli military violated the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the ceasefire held only 51 days, from January 25th through March 18th, 2025, when Israel resumed its wholesale slaughter of the besieged and imprisoned Palestinian civilian population in Gaza).
Friday’s massacres followed a series of massacres committed by Israeli forces on Thursday, which mainly targeted starving civilians trying to obtain food from the ‘Squid Game’ style gladiator arenas set up by the US-based Christian Zionist corporation “GHF”. More than 100 Palestinian civilians were killed on Thursday, the majority of whom were starving aid seekers trying desperately to compete for a bag of flour or a few cans of food to bring to their starving families in the makeshift camps of the displaced.
The Arab Parliament affirmed on Friday that the world is facing a dangerous phase that is redefining the concept of terrorism in its most brutal forms, especially when it is practiced officially and in an organized manner, as is the case with the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip.
The Arab Parliament noted that the crimes committed by the occupation over the course of more than a year and a half can only be described as “a blatant form of organized state terrorism,” which contains all the elements of an international crime, including the deliberate targeting of civilians, in addition to the siege, starvation, and use of military force against the most vulnerable groups in society, including women, children, and the elderly.
This came during a speech delivered by Arab Parliament member Nasser Abu Bakr at the meeting held by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism on “New Trends, Challenges, and Threats in the Field of Terrorism,” which was held virtually with the participation of several representatives of parliaments and international bodies.
MP Abu Bakr warned that the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation, which reflect the danger of employing modern warfare tools to serve the terrorism of starvation and genocide, which constitute a flagrant violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions. He pointed out that the international community’s inability and double standards provide cover for the continuation of these crimes and contribute to the reproduction of terrorism in more brutal forms.
Friday’s documented attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians:
7:30 am – 20 civilians killed in Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis and the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City
At least 20 Palestinians were killed and others wounded on Friday morning in Israeli shelling and gunfire on tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, and north of Rafah.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that at least 15 family members were killed from the Abu Khadija family, and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced members of the family near the Taiba Towers, west of Khan Yunis.
The correspondent added that three Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City, in addition to the killing of two citizens by Israeli forces’ fire near an aid center north of Rafah.
In addition, the occupation artillery targeted the tents of the displaced in the Mawasi area of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli occupation forces also blew up residential homes north of Khan Yunis.
1:48 pm Israeli Forces Target Two Paramedics
Two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics were injured after being targeted by the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia, north of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent said that the Israeli occupation army targeted the paramedics while they were providing first aid to the injured in Jabalia al-Balad, resulting in their injury. They were then transferred to the association’s Al-Saraya field hospital. The targeting of paramedics and journalists has been a common practice over the 635 days of Israel’s war on the entire population of the Gaza Strip, with hundreds of paramedics killed and hundreds of paramedics, doctors, nurses, surgeons and heads of medical facilities imprisoned by Israel in the notorious Sde Teiman torture facility and death camp, established in the Negev Desert by the Israeli military in October 2023.
4:04 pm Two killed, many wounded in the Israeli occupation’s targeting of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Two Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip .
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation army targeted a group of citizens in the Al-Hasayneh area, west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of two citizens and the injury of others, all of whom were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital.
5:53 pm – 14 killed in the occupation’s bombing of two houses in Jabalia and the Tuffah neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.
Fourteen Palestinians were killed and dozens injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed two houses in Jabalia and al-Tuffah neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that 10 Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured, most of them seriously, after the Israeli occupation bombed the Dada family home in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Four citizens were killed and others were injured and burned when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in the Zarqa area in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
8:29 pm – Six killed, many wounded in an Israeli artillery attack against Palestinians waiting for aid in the central Gaza Strip.
Six Palestinians were killed and others injured on Friday evening in Israeli artillery shelling that targeted a gathering of citizens waiting for aid near the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip. The death toll in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Friday has risen to about 70, including children and women.
Since dawn today, Israeli occupation forces have targeted people waiting for aid, tents, civilian homes, and civilian gatherings across the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that the death toll from the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces when they bombed the home of the Dada family in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, has risen to 11.
Four citizens were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a gathering of citizens in the Jabalia al-Nazla area in the northern governorate and a tent for displaced people in the Saftawi area north of Gaza City .
Two Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian gatherings in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Zeitoun neighborhoods east of Gaza City also resulted in the deaths of four civilians.
In the Tuffah neighborhood, an Israeli drone killed a child near the Sanafour intersection . In the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, three civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the home of the Al-Deiri family .
In the western part of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, two citizens were killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the al-Hasayna area. Four citizens were also killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the al-Shalabi family in the al-Bureij refugee camp.
Earlier, 20 citizens waiting for aid were killed, including five who were shot directly near a distribution point northwest of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and 15 near the Tahlia roundabout east of Khan Yunis. Ninety food seekers were injured.
Eight civilians, including children and women, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced people near the Taiba Towers in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
Four civilians were killed and others, mostly children and women, were injured in a bombing that targeted two tents for displaced people on the Khan Yunis beach.
The occupation forces also targeted a tent for displaced persons near the British field hospital in Al-Mawasi, killing three civilians, including two children, and wounding others.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it .
The genocide has left more than 192,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children .
