Updated: On Saturday, the Israeli occupation army continued bombing and shelling several areas across the devastated and besieged Gaza Strip, killing nine Palestinians and injuring others. The attacks included a strike on a medical‑supplies warehouse belonging to Al‑Aqsa Hospital, causing extensive damage and destruction and forcing families sheltering in nearby tents to flee the area.
A Palestinian citizen was killed, and two others were injured, in Israeli occupation shelling in Deir al-Balah, the central Gaza Strip.
Media sources said an Israeli drone bombed a group of citizens in the city of Deir al-Balah, killing one citizen and wounding two others, who were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Two citizens were also killed, and several others were injured, as a result of an Israeli occupation drone bombing a group of citizens in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City.
Sources at the Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City, reported the arrival of two bodies and a number of injuries to the hospital, after an Israeli drone strike targeted a group of citizens on the third street in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood
Also in Gaza City, an Israeli quadcopter drone carrying explosives struck the rooftop of Al‑Hurriya School in the Zeitoun neighborhood, where displaced families have been sheltering, causing an explosion and forcing them to flee the area.
Two Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone struck the rooftop of a home in the al‑Reis area of southern Gaza City. Emergency services also reported that another Palestinian was killed and several others wounded in a separate airstrike on al‑Thalatini Street in Gaza City.
Another Palestinian, Wael Al-Khodary, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered several days ago, when the Israeli army bombarded the Al-Jala’ Street in Gaza city.
Furthermore, Israeli missiles destroyed the warehouse for medicines and medical supplies affiliated with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, causing significant damage to the place and damaging the tents of the surrounding displaced people.
Medical sources reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the medicine warehouse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, destroying it and creating a large hole at the bombing site. The explosion and the resulting destruction displaced dozens of displaced families who were living in nearby tents.
The sources added that the targeted destruction of the warehouse exacerbates the humanitarian and health conditions in the Gaza Strip, in light of the severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, and the continuing pressure on hospitals that are still operating in difficult conditions as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression.
The destruction of medicine and medical supplies comes as Palestinians in Gaza are already facing severe shortages of medicine, and deadly disease outbreaks have broken out across Gaza.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said that two of its four medical‑supply warehouses were completely destroyed and the remaining two severely damaged in the Israeli attack. The Ministry condemned the strike as a “heinous crime” and called for urgent international action to protect medical facilities and ensure their safety.
Gaza City faces rising disease threats amid environmental collapse. Millions of tons of rubble and waste fill the streets. Collapsed sewage networks create dangerous conditions for residents. Around 25 million tons of rubble remain across Gaza City.
Chickenpox and acute hepatitis cases are increasing in displacement camps. Poor sanitation fuels the spread of infectious diseases. Hundreds of rodent bite cases have been reported in camps. Rodent infestations grow as waste and debris continue accumulating.
Damaged infrastructure leaves Gaza vulnerable to further outbreaks. Urgent action is needed to prevent worsening health threats.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, said that Al‑Aqsa Hospital remains one of the few medical facilities in central Gaza still capable of treating large numbers of patients, serving as the primary refuge for displaced families after months of Israeli bombardment severely degraded the territory’s health system.
The Israeli army and its security agency, Shin Bet, alleged that they had struck what it called “five Hamas weapons depots across Gaza, including one located near Al‑Aqsa Hospital.”
According to a report by MSNBC, “Humanitarian agencies have been sounding the alarm over surging chickenpox cases in Gaza for weeks. In early July, the United Nations recorded more than 9,300 new infections in only a fortnight and many of those cases were concentrated in tent communities around Khan Younis, in Gaza’s south.
“The Danish Refugee Council said the number of cases in that narrow window was significantly higher than at other times during the war, and it had activated its emergency plans for five sites across Khan Younis.
“They included trucking in safe water to use for washing and cooking, distributing personal hygiene kits, and trying to bolster sewage collection in the area.”
The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip, targeting various areas, amid a continuing deterioration in humanitarian conditions, and the continued targeting of medical facilities and shelters for the displaced.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians and added that another Palestinian died when a previously bombarded building collapsed on him, bringing the number of Palestinians killed in similar building‑collapse incidents since the “ceasefire” agreement to 33.
According to the Ministry, the cumulative number of Palestinians killed since the “ceasefire” announced on October 11, 2025, has risen to 1,222, while the number of recorded injuries has reached 4,053. The total number of bodies recovered from beneath destroyed homes stands at 804.
The overall death toll from the genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, has climbed to at least 73,349 Palestinians killed and more than 174,162 injured, the Ministry stated.
A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and rescue crews continue to face severe obstacles that prevent them from reaching many of the targeted areas.
