On Thursday, Day 641 since the beginning of the genocide on October 7, 2023, Israeli military strikes across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip left dozens of Palestinians killed and many more wounded. Among the victims were journalist Ahmad Salama Abu Aisha and three civilians who were killed while waiting for humanitarian aid.
UPDATE 11:59 pm
82 Palestinians have been killed on Thursday by Israeli forces, as Israeli officials announce plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians to a concentration camp in Rafah.
According to Al Jazeera, among those killed on Thursday, 15 people, including nine children and four women, were killed in an Israeli air attack while waiting in line for nutritional supplies for children in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. Those killed included 8 children and three mothers .
All of them were hungry and were in need of standing in long lines early in the morning, waiting for the clinic to open to receive milk, nutritional supplements, and diapers. Some were waiting to receive medical treatment.
Some of the victims that have been identified:
Two-year-old Yasmeen Abu Samaha
Two-year-old Mohammad Abu Halhoul
Four-year-old Aya Mishmish
Four-year-old Omar Al Nouri
Eight-year-old Amir Al Nouri
Ten-year-old Motaz Al Bahtini
Eleven-year-old Jamal Bader
Fourteen-year-old Sama Al Nouri
In a separate attack, ten Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Thursday evening when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shelled a school in Jabalia al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted Halima Al-Sadia School, which is sheltering displaced people.
The Israeli occupation forces continued to destroy residential buildings in the Al-Satar area, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that one of its paramedics was injured by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire while participating in a humanitarian mission in the Tahlia area of Khan Yunis. He was subsequently transferred to the Al-Mawasi field hospital.
Two citizens were killed and others injured on Thursday evening in Israeli shelling of Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted the home of the Al-Hawajri family, killing two civilians and wounding 30 others, including 19 children.
Catherine Russell, the director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), condemned the attack on aid seekers and said the killing of families trying to access aid was “unconscionable”.
“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians,” the UNICEF official said.
“The lack of aid means children are facing starvation while the risk of famine grows. The number of malnourished children will continue to rise until life-saving aid and services are resumed at full scale”.
Also Thursday evening, five Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of the northern Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation targeted the Zarqa area in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of five citizens from the Batran family.
Journalist Jehad Abusalim reports that Hussein Mousa Ashour, his son Mohammad, his son-in-law Mohammad Maher Ashour, and his granddaughter Malak were killed in a strike on their home in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
According to Al Jazeera, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced earlier this week a plan to forcibly transfer Palestinians to a tent city in Rafah, southern Gaza, potentially affecting any ceasefire deal.
Tamara Alrifai, a senior communications director at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), told Al Jazeera that the plan would “de facto create massive concentration camps at the border with Egypt for the Palestinians”.
“We cannot be silent and complicit of such large-scale forced displacement,” she said.
Meanwhile, Mosab Abu Toha reports that these babies in Shifa Hospital today were placed by doctors in one room, on one bed, after the hospital ran out of fuel.
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Media sources confirmed that three Palestinians were killed, and others wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians awaiting aid northwest of Gaza City. The dead and injured were transported to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Two civilians were also killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the rooftop of a home in the Sham’a area of the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Additional strikes on Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, resulted in the killing of Nasser Abu Amra. Another airstrike targeted a home behind a mosque in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of eastern Gaza City.
Furthermore, eight Palestinians were killed and many injured in an Israeli bombing of Al-Wihda Street near Zahra’ School in the center of Gaza City.
Medical sources confirmed the death of journalist Ahmad Salama Abu Aisha, who was killed in an airstrike targeting a group of civilians in the Sawarha area west of Nuseirat in central Gaza.
Further casualties were reported in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, where a civilian was killed and others wounded following drone strikes on the western part of the city.
Media sources stated that Israeli drones bombed a makeshift shelter housing displaced families in the town of Al-Qarara, northwest of Khan Younis, killing five civilians: Kamel Wafi, Darwish Adnan Wafi, Yasmin Adnan Wafi, Mahfoutha Abdullah Wafi, and Abboud Mohammed Ali Abu Muammar. Several others were injured.
Additionally, the Israeli army fired missiles at Palestinians near the Al-Karama Towers, northwest of Gaza City, killing at least four and wounding many others.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians killed while seeking aid over the past 24 hours stands at nine, with at least seventy-eight wounded. The total number of aid-seeking Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers has now reached at least 752, with 5,179 wounded.
This is Hanin, a five-year-old survivor of a school fire caused by a strike in #Gaza.
She was evacuated by @WHO and partners, along with 22 other patients, to receive urgent medical care abroad.
Hanin is just one of over 10,000 patients in Gaza in need of specialized treatment… pic.twitter.com/WBxEaQsitB
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) July 9, 2025
Over the past 24 hours, 82 Palestinians have been killed, including 38 in central and southern Gaza, and 247 wounded, according to hospital records across the Gaza Strip. Dozens remain trapped under rubble and on destroyed streets, with rescue teams unable to reach them due to widespread devastation and ongoing bombardment.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has condemned the killing of journalist Ahmad Abu Aisha, a correspondent for Palestine Today, describing it as yet another crime in the Israeli occupation’s dark record against truth.
His death adds to a long chain of systematic violations targeting Palestinian journalists in an attempt to silence free expression and obscure reality.
In a statement issued Thursday, the syndicate confirmed that Abu Aisha was deliberately targeted by Israeli drones while standing in front of his home in western Nuseirat, central Gaza. He was killed instantly in what the syndicate described as a clear and intentional act against an unarmed journalist fulfilling his professional and national duty.
“The Israeli occupation follows a systematic policy of targeting journalists and media outlets,” the statement read, “in blatant violation of international and humanitarian laws that safeguard media professionals during armed conflicts.”
The syndicate called for urgent international intervention and urged the International Criminal Court to hold Israeli leaders accountable for these crimes. It stressed that Palestinian journalists have become targets for execution simply for conveying the truth to the world.
According to the statement, dozens of Palestinian journalists have been killed since the onset of the aggression, many others wounded, and scores of media institutions destroyed—in a failed attempt to extinguish the voice of truth.
Over 700 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect aid from the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites. Several children are among the victims. Here are some of their stories. pic.twitter.com/eWrBIQYjDj
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 10, 2025
The statement concluded: “Despite the killings, bombardments, and destruction, Palestinian journalism will remain free. Our pens and cameras will continue to bear witness to the crimes of the occupation—they will not be broken, nor silenced by the machinery of war.”
Since Israel violated the ceasefire agreement on March 18, 2025, the Israeli army has killed at least 7,200 Palestinians, including 1,856 children, 676 women, 334 elders, and 39 journalists, and wounded more than 25,615, mostly children, women, and the elderly.
Israel has now killed at least 57,762 Palestinians, including over 17,131 children, 10,190 women, 4,147 elders, and 257 journalists. Thousands remain missing, most likely buried under bombed buildings and collapsed alleyways. More than 137,656 Palestinians have been injured, largely children and women, across the devastated Gaza Strip.
The number of fatalities in Gaza remains incomplete, as accurate data is unavailable due to the ongoing Israeli genocide, relentless bombing, massive destruction, and siege on the coastal enclave.
