On Thursday, September 4th, the 699th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and Day 171 since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement, medical sources in Gaza confirmed that Israeli forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, and wounded dozens more, including children and women, since dawn Thursday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported the deaths of 19 people due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of famine-related deaths to 370, including 131 children.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated more than 18 of the slain Palestinians were killed in Gaza city and added that four Palestinians were killed while seeking humanitarian aid in central and southern Gaza.
“We fear that the international community will adapt to scenes of children being killed and starved in the Gaza Strip.” Amjad Shawwa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network in Gaza, has expressed deep concern over the genocide in Gaza, warning that the world risks becoming desensitized to the ongoing Israeli assault in the Strip.
“We are in the most dangerous phase since this aggression began,” he said, adding that there is a growing fear the international community will begin to see the suffering and deaths of children in Gaza as mere statistics, rather than humanitarian tragedies.
According to Doctors Without Borders, Israel is treating civilians in Gaza as if they were military targets, which constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
Testimonies from Doctors Without Borders reveal that what is happening is not just a war, but a systematic policy aimed at uprooting people from their land and stripping them of the most basic means of life.
The mass displacement and destruction of vital infrastructure leave no room for doubt: what is taking place is a full-fledged crime against a defenseless people. This is not merely temporary human suffering, but an attempt to kill the future and erase Palestinian existence in Gaza.
Younis Tirawi reports: The famous Zaitoun district of Gaza city today. It no longer exists. The final building, Fourqan school was dynamited today by Israeli forces, intent on destroying the neighborhood and all of Gaza and reducing it to rubble.
Three-year-old Karim Muammar is facing the risk of death in Gaza due to severe malnutrition, liver enlargement, and rickets, as Israel prevents him from traveling abroad for medical treatment and deprives him of food and medicine under the ongoing blockade and war.
Professor Omar Harb has died of hunger. He had lost 26 members of family in Israeli bombings, and he lost his home and all his property in Rafah.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians were documented by local sources on Thursday:
11 pm
A Palestinian child was killed after Israeli occupation forces deliberately bombed her family’s displacement tent in western Gaza City.
10 pm
Multiple Palestinians, including children, were killed and others injured as a result of Israeli occupation strike on residential apartment near Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City.
At least 10 citizens were killed on Thursday evening by Israeli occupation forces’ shelling and gunfire in most areas of the Gaza Strip.
Wafa correspondents and medical sources reported that 3 citizens were killed in the bombing of a house next to Al-Falah School in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and 4 others, including children, in the occupation’s bombing of a vehicle in the vicinity of the Hawa junction west of the city.
A number of people were also killed when the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a group of citizens near Al-Zafer Tower in the Al-Saraya area in Gaza City, at a time when a female Palestinian was killed by bullets fired from an Israeli drone south of the Al-Baraka neighborhood in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Wafa correspondents reported that photojournalist Bilal al-Nabih was injured by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire while covering the bombing and demolition of homes in the al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
This comes just after Israeli occupation forces blew up the University College of Science and Technology in the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
9:30 pm
At least 3 citizens were killed and others were injured when Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted with missiles a house belonging to citizen Jamil Al-Mutrabi’i, in the vicinity of Shawa Square in Gaza City, resulting in the killing of 3 citizens, and the wounding of dozens, in addition to missing persons under the rubble.
Despite his injuries and pain, a father embraces his wounded daughter after they were both injured in an Israeli strike in Gaza City.
8 pm
Israeli occupation forces detonate an explosive-laden robot between residential homes in the eastern Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
A wounded man lies on the floor of Al-Shifa Hospital, with no bed available due to the overcrowding of the wounded after a series of Israeli airstrikes on displacement tents and residential apartments in Gaza City.
4 pm
A young man and his donkey trapped under a hail of bullets — a haMultiple Palestinians, including children, were killed and others injured as a result of Israeli occupation strike on residential apartment near Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City.rrowing moment caught on camera as Israeli drones opened fire on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
2 pm
Desperately hungry Palestinians gather at a charity kitchen in Gaza City to get a small bowl of food amid the ongoing Israeli starvation campaign in the region.
1 pm
A massacre was carried out against displaced civilians in a tent outside the southern gate of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, leaving 2 killed and several others injured (video from wadeaa_.9 (IG))
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12:33 pm
Two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli bombing of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city,
Five Palestinians, including four children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced families near Abu Mazen Roundabout in Tel al-Hawa, southwest Gaza City. The attack struck civilians seeking refuge from ongoing bombardment.
In a separate strike, two more Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed tents housing displaced people in al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Three additional civilians were killed and several injured when Israeli aircraft targeted the home of the Habib family in al-Sabra neighborhood, also in Gaza City.
In addition, a child was killed, and several members of her family and other displaced Palestinians were injured, in an Israeli bombing of a tent, west of Gaza city.
Also, the army forces shot and killed Palestinian civilian Muhaimin Ghazi Shahin near the Kissufim area, southeast of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
One Palestinian was also killed and several others wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent sheltering displaced families in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Furthermore, four civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent in the Sikka area of the Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza. The victims were identified as Omar Zaiter, Mohammad Rayan, Mohammad Khreis, and Jihad Khreis.
Additionally, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, as attacks on shelters and residential zones continue across the enclave.
Meanwhile, in the northern part of the city, Israeli forces detonated an explosive-laden robot between residential homes east of Sheikh Radwan, intensifying destruction in one of Gaza’s most densely populated areas. These attacks reflect Israel’s continued targeting of displaced civilians and residential infrastructure amid its ongoing military campaign.
Three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded near a humanitarian aid center north of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for assistance, according to medical staff at Nasser Hospital.
Since March 2, Israel has kept all border crossings into Gaza sealed, blocking the entry of humanitarian supplies and driving the territory into a worsening famine. Despite hundreds of aid trucks stalled at the border, only minimal quantities have been allowed in, insufficient to meet even the most basic needs of the population.
The famine persists, compounded by reports that many aid convoys are being intercepted by armed groups operating with Israeli protection, as previously stated by Gaza’s Government Media Office. Civilians continue to face starvation amid systematic obstruction of relief and militarized control over aid distribution.
The Director of the UN Human Rights Office in Palestine stated that famine is now suffocating Gaza City, with its effects beginning to spread to other areas across the besieged enclave.
Meanwhile in Israel, former army chief Gadi Eisenkot urged his political partner Benny Gantz to withdraw from the upcoming elections if his party fails to reach the electoral threshold.
Speaking to Israeli Army Radio, Eisenkot said that anyone seeking real change and hope in Israel must step aside if they cannot secure a mandate.
He emphasized that most Israelis, “those who want a strong, democratic Jewish state, must unite to replace the current government and rescue the country from the damage caused under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership.”
Eisenkot criticized Netanyahu for obstructing progress on a prisoner-swap deal, and stated that the Chief of Staff had confirmed the conditions for the hostages’ return were met, yet Netanyahu continues to ignore and delay the process.
According to Eisenkot, “it is not far-right ministers like Ben Gvir or Smotrich who are blocking the deal, but Netanyahu himself.”
The remarks reflect growing frustration within Israel’s political and military establishment over the government’s handling of the war and its failure to advance negotiations. With Gantz’s party polling below the electoral threshold, Eisenkot’s comments signal a potential shift in opposition strategy amid deepening political fragmentation.
Furthermore, the brother of two Israeli captives held in Gaza said it appears Hamas is more willing to reach a prisoner exchange deal and end the war than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Last Sunday, Netanyahu refused to hold a vote on a partial hostage release proposal during a heated meeting of Israel’s security cabinet. Despite mounting pressure to resume negotiations with Hamas, the prime minister dismissed the initiative, sparking outrage among families of the Israeli captives. Many accused Netanyahu of obstructing efforts to bring their loved ones home.
In the last 24 hours, the Israeli army killed at least 113 Palestinians and injured more than 304, many of whom are children and women.
About 367 Palestinians, including 131 children, have died from malnutrition and the lack of medical treatments in the devastated Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.
Israel has now killed at least 63,746 Palestinians, and injured more than 161,245, mostly children and women, in addition to about 9,000 who remain missing, largely under rubble and in areas inaccessible to rescue teams due to constant bombing and massive destruction, in addition to hundreds of thousands of repeatedly displaced Palestinians.
