On Friday, Day 46 since the resumption of the genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, including children and women, across the devastated Gaza Strip.
Nine Palestinians were killed and others injured, Friday, in an airstrike targeting displaced persons’ tents in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, and a charity kitchen in northern Gaza City.
Local sources reported that an Israeli drone struck tents near “Asda’ Entertainment City,” north of Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, resulting in the killing of three people and injuries many.
Additionally, another drone targeted a charity kitchen near Abdel Aal Junction on Al-Jalaa Street in northern Gaza City, killing six Palestinians and injuring many others.
Eleven Palestinians, including two children and two siblings, were killed, while dozens sustained injuries—many of them critical—following Israeli airstrikes on a residential home and a service center in Gaza.
“The international community has a choice – to keep scrolling through the grisly images of Gaza being suffocated and starved or muster the courage and the moral fiber to make decisions that would break this merciless blockade.”
– Olga Cherevko, @UNOCHA Spokesperson, #Gaza pic.twitter.com/HMliqrkwyN
— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) May 2, 2025
Also, an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in Jabalia, northern Gaza, resulting in the killing of eight individuals and injuries to numerous others, including women and children.
Additionally, three children, including two siblings, were killed, and several Palestinians were wounded when an Israeli drone struck a displaced family sheltering in a tent at the Al-Bureij Services Club in central Gaza.
A child and a young man were killed on Friday evening following Israeli airstrikes targeting the Zeitoun and Shuja’iyya neighborhoods in Gaza City.
The child, Aoun Nizar Al-Deeb, was killed, while his grandfather, Aoun Al-Deeb, sustained injuries after an airstrike hit Al-Sikka Street in Al-Shuja’iyya, eastern Gaza.
Additionally, another civilian was killed, and several others were wounded when an Israeli airstrike struck a warehouse in Zeitoun neighborhood, in the southern area of Gaza city.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, seven civilians were killed and several others injured as an Israeli drone struck a mourning tent near a community club.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled the Al-Farahin and Al-Sanati areas east of Abasan Al-Kabira, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, while live ammunition was also fired in the vicinity.
Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months. Thousands of Palestinian children are at risk of dying from starvation. pic.twitter.com/5maStHR0lz
— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 3, 2025
Furthermore, five-year-old Murad Ala’ Abu Mogheisib succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike the previous day, which hit the Al-Baraka area in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.
It is worth mentioning that UNICEF has raised alarm over the worsening conditions for children in Gaza, warning that they face increasing risks of hunger, disease, and death due to the ongoing Israeli blockade, which has now lasted two months.
In a statement, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell emphasized the dire humanitarian situation, pointing to the severe restrictions on aid and essential supplies. She reiterated calls for an end to the blockade, the entry of commercial goods, and the urgent need to safeguard children.
“For two months, children in Gaza have endured relentless bombardment while being deprived of necessities and life-saving medical care. Every additional day that aid is blocked increases their risk of malnutrition, illness, and death—an unacceptable reality that must not continue,” Russell stated.
Medical sources report that the death toll from Israeli airstrikes across Gaza since early morning has risen to at least 51 in addition to dozens of injuries.
A Palestinian emerges from under the rubble after an Israeli occupation airstrike bombed a building belonging to the Al-Shamali family on Al-Sikka Street in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City. The airstrike killed two of his family members and injured several others.… pic.twitter.com/j8rCr3LT61
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) May 2, 2025
Since the beginning of this year, Israel has killed at least 3,085 Palestinians, including 527 children, and 318 women.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 52,418, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to thousands who remain under the rubble since October 7, 2023, with emergency and civil defense teams unable to reach them.
More than 118,091 Palestinians, largely children and women have been injured since October 7, while many victims remain trapped beneath the rubble with emergency services unable to reach them.
