On Saturday, Day 103 since Israel resumed its genocide in the Gaza Strip (and day 630 since the beginning of the genocide in October 2023), dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured, including children and women, in a series of Israeli air and artillery strikes that began at dawn Saturday, medical sources in the besieged and devastated enclave have confirmed.
Medical sources announced the killing of 58 Palestinian citizens, most of them children and women, as a result of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip, since dawn today.
These latest assaults followed a bloody Friday that saw Israeli forces carry out multiple massacres, killing nearly 100 Palestinians, and wounding hundreds, across the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday afternoon, Israeli airstrikes hit a school sheltering families in al-Tuffah neighborhood in central Gaza, killing at least 20, mainly children and families taking shelter at the site.
On Saturday, medical authorities in Gaza confirmed that the number of children who have died from hunger and malnutrition has climbed to 66. The World Health Organization announced that around 112 Palestinian children are being hospitalized daily in the Gaza Strip for treatment of malnutrition since the beginning of this year, due to the severe Israeli blockade.
Read more below about the growing humanitarian catastrophe of mass starvation in Gaza, which has rapidly increased since March 2025 when Israeli forces broke a negotiated ceasefire, closed all borders to Gaza and resumed their relentless bombing campaign of civilian centers throughout Gaza.
6:15 pm
Two Palestinian citizens were killed and several others injured on Saturday evening after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed areas in Gaza City.
Medical sources reported that a Palestinian citizen was killed when the Israeli occupation forces targeted civilians waiting for aid on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area in the central Gaza Strip.
Another Palestinian citizen was killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of citizens on Al-Maghribi Street in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation forces’ artillery shelled the east of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and the occupation forces’ aircraft launched two raids on the towns of Jabalia and Al-Nazla in the northern Gaza Strip.
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Twenty Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted, for the second time, the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Wafa news correspondents reported that 20 citizens, including 9 children, were killed and dozens were injured, most of them seriously, after Israeli aircraft targeted a group of citizens near the Abdul Fattah Hamoud School on Yaffa Street in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Two citizens were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the area around the entrance to Al-Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip.
2:15 pm
Ten Palestinians were killed and others injured by Israeli occupation forces’ shelling and gunfire in Khan Yunis and Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
A medical source at Nasser Hospital reported that six citizens were killed and several others injured as a result of Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire near a supposed ‘aid distribution site’ north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
This follows daily shootings of aid seekers, and on Thursday, a drone strike killing 18 Palestinians in Dir al-Balah, in central Gaza, when people gathered for flour distribution by US company GHF were hit by a bomb dropped from an aerial drone. This marks a new advancement in the flour distribution massacres, which have been occurring daily since GHF opened its operations in Gaza on May 27th, 2025. Each day, Israeli snipers have fired lethal and non-lethal weapons at Palestinians gathered to collect flour at the distribution sites, killing over 400 in the past three weeks. But this marks the first time that Israeli forces have dropped a drone strike on the gathered crowds trying to obtain a small bag of flour for their starving family members.
The source added that four citizens were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to UN reports, more than 550 civilians have been killed while attempting to obtain food at Israeli-American aid distribution points, which are internationally rejected. Since their establishment late last month, these points have transformed into mass killing traps, not to mention the deliberate violation of citizens’ dignity and forced displacement amid catastrophic humanitarian conditions.
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28 June 2025 – 12:03 pm report from Gaza:
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli tanks, warplanes, and helicopter gunships targeted central and eastern Khan Younis, exacerbating the destruction and trauma in areas already reeling from months of bombardment and forced displacement.
In Gaza city, two Palestinians were killed and many others wounded when Israeli forces bombed the Adnan Al-Alami School, which had been sheltering hundreds of displaced families in the city’s northwest.
Separately, a woman was killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment in central Gaza city.
In addition, at least ten Palestinians from the Abu Amsha family were killed, and many injured, in an Israeli bombing of a tent near the Holy Family School, west of Gaza city.
The slain Palestinians are Bilal Mohammad Nimir Abu Amsha, his mother Fathiyya Abu Amsha, his wife Taghrid Na’im Abu Amsha, their sons and daughters Mohammad, Amjad, Nour, Israa’, Rahaf, Fatima and Amal.
Also in Gaza city, medical sources at the Shifa Medical Center said three Palestinians were killed, and several others wounded, in an Israeli bombing of the Saftwai area, north of the city.
Another six people, injured a child, Tala Sami Hussein Najjar, were killed and several injured in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering civilians in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis. Another Palestinian was later found dead in the same area.
In northern Gaza’s Jabalia, two children were killed and at least eight others wounded after Israeli warplanes struck two residential homes.
The Al-Aqsa Satellite Network reported that additional artillery shelling and airstrikes targeted wide swaths of Jabalia.
Elsewhere in Jabalia An-Nazla, three more Palestinians, including children, were killed and several wounded in strikes near Halima Al-Saadia School, which was also housing displaced families at the time.
In central Gaza, six Palestinians were killed and many others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a group of civilians near the Martyrs Roundabout in Al-Bureij refugee camp.
Southward in Khan Younis, an Israeli drone strike on a makeshift shelter killed three people, including two children.
The Israeli military also destroyed a full residential block in Qizan Abu Rashwan, south of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, in Deir al-Balah, medical staff at Al-Aqsa Hospital confirmed the death of three-month-old Jouri Al-Masri, who died from starvation and the lack of infant formula, a consequence of Israel’s ongoing blockade and the continued closure of border crossings.
On Friday night, eleven Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and dozens wounded when an Israeli missile struck a tent sheltering displaced families near Palestine Junction in the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Throughout the day Friday and into Saturday, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 13 additional Palestinians and wounded scores more, primarily targeting areas where displaced civilians were seeking shelter or humanitarian aid.
Across Gaza, more than 100 Palestinians were killed in just 24 hours, with many of the attacks striking near food distribution points or makeshift shelters.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, announced that its fighters detonated a high-powered explosive device targeting an Israeli military vehicle advancing along Street 5, north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli military has reported the deaths of 879 officers and soldiers, in addition to 6,012 wounded, according to figures published on its official website.
Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, marked by mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, has continued unabated for over 21 months, in defiance of international appeals and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to halt its actions.
Our latest on the situation in📍#Gaza and the #WestBank:
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— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 28, 2025
The humanitarian catastrophe continues to deepen. Medical teams at Nasser Medical Complex reported numerous casualties following gunfire by Israeli forces near an aid center north of Rafah, in southern Gaza.
That assault is the latest in a series of deadly incidents linked to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a distribution system launched jointly by Israel and the United States on May 27, illegally bypassing UN coordination and international humanitarian mechanisms.
Since its rollout, at least 549 Palestinians have been killed and over 4,000 wounded near these distribution sites while seeking food and aid.
In related news, medical authorities in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the number of children who have died from hunger and malnutrition has climbed to 66. The worsening toll is attributed to Israel’s continued blockade, closure of border crossings, and restrictions on the entry of essential supplies—particularly infant formula and nutritional supplements vital for vulnerable groups such as babies and the ill.
Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are receiving around 112 malnourished children per day since the start of the year. WHO attributed the surge to the suffocating siege imposed on the territory.
Out of 36 hospitals in Gaza, only 17 remain partially functional. No operational hospitals are available in the north or in the southern city of Rafah, leaving wide areas without access to medical care.
UN officials and human rights groups have widely condemned the GHF as militarized, unsafe, and inconsistent with international humanitarian standards.
Critics say the model leaves starving civilians with a deadly choice: die from hunger or face live fire. The United Nations has refused to cooperate with the initiative, calling its aid zones “inherently unsafe” and lacking the neutrality and access safeguards required under international law.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that Gaza’s healthcare system is near total collapse. Massive damage to hospitals, acute shortages of fuel and medical supplies, and dangerous conditions for humanitarian workers have all crippled the delivery of life-saving care.
UNRWA stressed that the continued closure of crossings and the lack of safe humanitarian corridors are preventing desperately needed supplies from reaching Gaza’s displaced population, most of whom are sheltering in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.
As casualties mount and infrastructure crumbles, international calls for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted aid access have intensified. But the bombardment continues, further advancing what rights organizations have characterized as a deliberate campaign of extermination against Gaza’s civilian population.
❗️”This is the Palestinian mother! Look at her, people!” A Palestinian mother of five orphans, all under the age of ten, returned empty-handed from Gaza’s Al-Rasheed Street today after waiting for hours near aid trucks.
“I’ve been out since 7 in the morning and didn’t get… pic.twitter.com/aCaJEoTKCf
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) June 27, 2025
In tandem with the destruction, forced displacement is accelerating. On Saturday, the Israeli army issued new evacuation orders targeting central areas of the Strip.
In a midnight post on social media, the military ordered residents of Nuseirat, Zahraa, Mughraqa, and several northern coastal neighborhoods, including An-Nuzha, Al-Bawadi, Al-Basma, Al-Zahraa, Al-Basateen, Badr, Abu Huraira, Al-Rawda, and Al-Safa, to relocate immediately to the Al-Mawasi area.
The army also warned civilians not to return to these zones, labeling them “dangerous combat areas.”
This forced displacement is part of what observers and rights defenders describe as a broader pattern of ethnic cleansing and systematic expulsion.
According to UN and humanitarian sources, more than 1.9 million Palestinians, over 90% of Gaza’s population, have now been displaced.
HUMANITARIAN DISASTER CONTINUES TO INCREASE
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported, on average, 112 Palestinian children are admitted to hospitals in Gaza every day for treatment of malnutrition, an outcome of Israel’s continuing blockade and military assault.
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that the situation in Gaza has “surpassed the threshold of catastrophe,” pointing to the widespread collapse of healthcare systems and the escalating toll of hunger-related illness among children.
Of Gaza’s 36 hospitals, only 17 are partially functional. There are no working hospitals in either northern Gaza or Rafah, leaving hundreds of thousands without access to critical care.
Dr. Ghebreyesus also condemned the deaths of at least 500 Palestinians who were shot while attempting to access food at aid distribution sites established by the U.S. and Israel, points that operate outside United Nations oversight and have been criticized for violating humanitarian standards.
He added that WHO teams were able to reach Gaza earlier this week for the first time since March 2, though access remains extremely limited. The agency continues to call for sustained humanitarian access and protection for medical staff and infrastructure
Human Rights Watch and others have affirmed that such policies, when enacted without safety or guarantees of return, may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
As of Saturday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that over 78% of Gaza is now under evacuation orders or designated as military zones, leaving nearly no place safe for civilians to seek refuge.
Since Israel’s violation of a mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, 2025, the Gaza Health Ministry reports that Israeli forces have killed more than 6,000 Palestinians and injured over 50,000.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 56,331 Palestinians, including more than 16,507 children, 9,803 women, and 254 journalists, and wounded at least 132,458 more, most of them children, women, and the elderly. Thousands remain missing beneath the rubble of bombed homes, streets, and alleyways.
Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, according to figures cited in an investigative report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The figure includes both direct and indirect deaths and amounts to roughly 4% of the territory’s total population.
The report references a statistical analysis by Professor Michael Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, based on a survey of 2,000 Palestinian households. The findings estimate that over 75,000 people were killed by violent means—primarily Israeli bombardment—while many others died from hunger, disease, or medical neglect as a result of the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.
The study also suggests that women and children make up the majority of the fatalities, underscoring the disproportionate toll on civilians.
While Israeli authorities have historically challenged casualty figures reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry, Haaretz notes a growing consensus among independent experts and human rights organizations that these numbers are likely credible—if not conservative.
Analysts now rank the war in Gaza as among the most deadly conflicts in the 21st century, particularly in terms of civilian-to-combatant casualties and deaths per capita.
