Updated: On Tuesday, Day 647 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Day 118 since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, medical sources reported that at least seventy Palestinians were killed on Tuesday, 49 of them in Gaza City, as Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and shelling across the enclave. Among the victims were three civilians struck by a drone strike near Sha’ban Al-Rayyes School in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of the city.
Update: Three Palestinians were killed, and at least 16 injured, when the army fired a shell at a tent housing displaced Palestinians, in Nuseirat, in central Gaza.
Update: Medical sources confirmed that 70 civilians have been killed since dawn, including 49 in Gaza City, following strikes on homes, shelters for displaced families, and areas where people had gathered in hopes of receiving aid.
In one of the latest attacks, six Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and many more wounded, when Israeli warplanes targeted two residential apartments in Gaza City.
Three civilians were killed and six wounded when a residential apartment belonging to the Bahtiti family near the Tammous intersection in western Gaza City was struck by an Israeli missile.
Another three civilians were killed and several wounded in a separate strike on an apartment on Eidiyya Street, south of the Shati refugee camp, east of Gaza city.
Earlier, an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians in Shati, killing 12 Palestinians including five children and injuring 20 others.
Furthermore, at least nine Palestinians, including five children, have been killed and more than 25 were injured in overnight strikes in the refugee camp.
The refugee camp also witnessed a deadly airstrike targeting a family home belonging to the Nassar family, resulting in the killing of five civilians and multiple injuries.
The strike caused a fire and partial collapse, with eyewitnesses reporting people still trapped under the rubble.
Three more civilians were killed in a strike near Sheikh Radwan Pool in northern Gaza City, while another drone strike near Shaban Al-Rayyes School in Al-Tuffah neighborhood killed an additional three individuals.
In the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza city, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed one civilian and wounded others.
East of the city, two people were killed in a strike near the Sanfour intersection in the Tuffah neighborhood, while an earlier attack killed five in a home in Az-Zarqa area of the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Earlier, three members of the Sabbagh family were killed and several others wounded when their home was hit by artillery fire in the same area.
Palestinian civil defense and rescue teams reported that 14 people remain trapped under the rubble of a Zarqa home destroyed on Monday. Efforts to extract their bodies are stalled by the lack of heavy machinery amid widespread devastation.
A separate strike on a residence near Hamza Mosque in western Gaza City claimed one life and injured multiple people.
Furthermore, more than four Palestinians were killed, and dozens were wounded when an Israeli strike flattened buildings along Nadim Street in the Zeitoun neighborhood; among the injured were several journalists covering the attacks.
Faraj Al-Ghoul, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was also killed when his home in Gaza City was bombed.
The Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza City saw two more fatalities and numerous injuries during the same barrage.
In northern Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan area, one woman was killed and others injured in a strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced residents on Al-Lababidi Street. A separate strike on another tent in the Rimal neighborhood left several people wounded.
One civilian waiting for humanitarian aid was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Al-Sudaniya area in northwest Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued demolishing homes and infrastructure in eastern Jabalia, triggering massive explosions throughout the area.
Further south, seven civilians were killed when a drone strike targeted a crowd in the Bani Soheila roundabout, east of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
In southern Gaza, two women were shot dead by Israeli soldiers near a U.S.–Israeli aid distribution center in western Rafah.
“It’s a death trap. People are forced to choose between starvation or being killed while trying to address the starvation,” @UNLazzarini tells @trtworld.
Over 870 killed and 4,000 injured in #Gaza while seeking food. Humanitarian access was once widespread — now it’s confined to… pic.twitter.com/xPQRWciXNz
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 15, 2025
Another civilian was killed when a tent of a displaced family near Jarrar Al-Qudra School in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, came under fire. In Bani Soheila, east of Khan Younis, seven Palestinians were killed and many more injured in a separate strike.
In addition, two women were killed, and many injured many Palestinian, near an aid distribution center west of Rafah city.
Al-Jazeera stated that another Israeli attack has injured more than 30 Palestinians while awaiting humanitarian aid north of Rafah.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that in the past 24 hours, 93 bodies, including five victims recovered from beneath collapsed buildings, and 278 wounded were transferred to hospitals across Gaza. It added that six civilians were killed and 29 injured while trying to obtain humanitarian assistance.
Since March 29, when the United States, through the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, established bypass aid distribution centers, at least 870 Palestinians seeking food have been killed and more 4,000 wounded, often by Israeli fire or by private security contractors hired by the foundation.
“It’s a death trap. People are forced to choose between starvation or being killed while trying to address the starvation,” @UNLazzarini tells @trtworld.
Over 870 killed and 4,000 injured in #Gaza while seeking food. Humanitarian access was once widespread — now it’s confined to… pic.twitter.com/xPQRWciXNz
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) July 15, 2025
The World Health Organization has warned that Gaza’s medical services face total collapse unless urgently needed supplies are allowed into the territory.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated on Tuesday that since October 7, 2023, Israel, as the occupying power, has been responsible for the daily killing of the equivalent of “an entire classroom of children,” with typical class sizes of 35 to 45 pupils.
UNRWA’s Gaza director, Sam Rose, said, “Every day since the war in Gaza began, an average of one classroom’s worth of children has been killed.”
Prior to what UNRWA describes as genocide, most schools accommodated between 35 and 45 students; today, nearly all serve as shelters for displaced families.
According to medical sources, more than 18,000 children have been killed and about 16,854 have been hospitalized. Repeated displacement, hunger, and thirst, aggravated by the destruction of food and water systems and the closure of border crossings, continue to compound their suffering.
On July 8, UNRWA noted that children constitute half of Gaza’s 2.4 million residents, and their lives remain defined by war and destruction.
UNRWA media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna has warned that Israeli proposals to build a so-called “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza would in effect become mass internment camps.
“The occupation has been plotting this initiative since setting up aid distribution points south of Gaza,” he said. “This time, the intentions are explicit: forcibly relocating Gaza’s population to detention camps in Rafah as a prelude to expulsion from their homeland.”
Abu Hasna criticized the mounting pressure on Palestinians, from the collapse of health services to fuel shortages and a near-total absence of aid, as tactics designed to induce “voluntary displacement.”
He warned that forcing nearly two million people into a devastated 60-square-kilometer area without viable living conditions or prospects for a dignified future would have catastrophic consequences.
According to Israel Hayom, a “mini-cabinet” meeting will convene soon to review the controversial “humanitarian city” plan in Rafah.
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is expected to “unveil a more cost-effective proposal after an initial estimate projected a $4 billion price tag.”
Officials will also receive updates on indirect ceasefire and prisoner-swap talks. Israeli sources report some progress on draft maps outlining withdrawal zones for Israeli forces within Gaza.
In addition, according to sources cited by the Hebrew news outlet Walla, the Israeli military is “undertaking extensive engineering operations in the Gaza Strip that signal long-term strategic intentions.”
These activities include “expanding military bases within the buffer zone and constructing new access routes designed to reinforce its presence.”
The engineering operations are aimed at reshaping the terrain “to allow for more effective control during any future ceasefire and beyond.”
Analysts suggest that the scale and nature of these operations send a clear message that “the Israeli army is preparing to maintain a prolonged presence in Gaza.”
Since violating the indirect ceasefire on March 18, 2025, Israel has killed at least 7,656 Palestinians and injured over 27,314.
Medical and human rights sources said the ongoing genocide in Gaza also has devastating consequences for medical and humanitarian personnel, as 1,580 healthcare workers and 467 humanitarian aid staff have been killed, and thousands injured.
Medical facilities, ambulances, and field teams have been subjected to systematic targeting, severely crippling Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and emergency response capabilities.
The toll on children has been especially harrowing. Every day, an average of ten children in Gaza lose one or both legs due to injuries caused by the ongoing violence. More than 40,000 children have sustained injuries, many of which are life-altering.
In addition, the repeated forced displacement of approximately 90% of Gaza’s population has inflicted profound psychological and physical hardship, particularly on the elderly and individuals with disabilities, who face intensified challenges under these conditions.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced many times, fleeing from one area of the destroyed coastal enclave to another, while famine continues to claim the lives of hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of children.
Since October 7, 2023, the blockade and destruction of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure have led to the deaths of at least 326 Palestinians due to starvation and the collapse of medical services.
Among the victims are at least 67 children who died from hunger as of mid-July 2025, according to health officials and the Gaza Government Media Office.
The medical system has been critically impaired, resulting in the deaths of at least 26 patients dependent on dialysis treatment. Healthcare professionals warn that the lack of access to essential medicines, equipment, and electricity has rendered hospitals incapable of responding to even basic emergencies.
Humanitarian organizations describe the situation as a deliberate starvation campaign, with more than 1.25 million residents facing extreme food insecurity. Children are especially vulnerable, with more than 650,000 under the age of five at high risk of acute malnutrition.
Efforts to deliver aid continue to be hampered by restrictions, logistical barriers, and targeted attacks on humanitarian convoys. The compounding effects of war, displacement, and systemic deprivation have pushed Gaza into one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in recent history.
The Hague Group, an international coalition formed in January 2025 to uphold international law and coordinate legal and diplomatic action against Israel’s offensive in Gaza, has released alarming figures on the humanitarian toll of the war. According to the group, at least 1,580 healthcare workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the conflict, alongside more than 467 humanitarian aid personnel.
The group also reported that ten children lose one or both legs every day due to injuries sustained in the war, and over 40,000 children have been wounded in attacks linked to the ongoing hostilities.
Hospitals, ambulances, and medical teams have been subjected to systematic targeting, severely undermining Gaza’s ability to provide emergency care and basic health services.
The repeated forced displacement of approximately 90% of Gaza’s population has had a devastating impact on vulnerable groups, particularly the elderly and people with disabilities, who face heightened risks under these conditions.
The Hague Group—comprising countries such as Colombia, South Africa, Bolivia, Cuba, Malaysia, and Senegal—has called for urgent international intervention to halt what it describes as a campaign of extermination. The coalition continues to push for enforcement of international court rulings and accountability for violations of humanitarian law.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, has called for urgent international action to halt what she described as genocide in Gaza.
In a recent statement, Albanese asserted that Israel’s economy is deliberately structured to sustain its occupation and has now evolved into a system of extermination.
She urged governments and private sector entities worldwide to reassess and suspend their ties with Israel, emphasizing that continued engagement risks complicity in grave violations of international law.
Albanese’s remarks come amid mounting global pressure for accountability and a growing consensus among human rights experts that the situation in Gaza constitutes a humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented scale.
Overall, since October 7, 2023, the death toll exceeds 58,479, among them more than 18,000 children, 10,190 women, and 257 journalists, with at least 11,000 still missing under rubble. Over 139,255 people, predominantly women and children, have been wounded across the Gaza Strip.
