On the 708th day of the ongoing genocide in the devastated Gaza Strip, Palestinians endured another wave of Israeli bombing and shelling, killing 52 Palestinian citizens, including 29 from Gaza City.
Israeli occupation forces have intensified aerial and ground assaults across the northern Gaza Strip, with a particular focus on Gaza City. Image above: Palestinian residents fleeing Gaza City in search of a safe place to shelter.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have engaged in a genocide of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 64,803 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 164,264 others, in an incomplete toll, as a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
Palestinian influencer Mariam Abu Taha expresses hope for the arrival of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, as the Global Sumud Flotilla departs from Tunisia to challenge the suffocating Israeli blockade.
Israel has threatened to intercept any boats attempting to reach Gaza’s shores, which it has been besieging and starving for the past two years, causing a severe famine that has been even more exacerbated since March. Over 400 Palestinians have died of forced starvation because of the Israeli blockade, most of them children, elderly and the disabled.
Suppressed News reports: Israel is bombarding Gaza City nonstop just like they did before with Rafah, Jabalia, Beit Lahia & Beit Hanoun. Israel is bombing tents, schools, shelters, residential buildings, clinics, blocks and towers.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians were documented on Saturday by local sources in Gaza:
11:25 pm
Brutal Israeli attacks hit different parts of Gaza in another horrifying night.
Four citizens were killed and others were injured, Saturday evening, as a result of Israeli occupation aircraft targeting the tents of displaced people west of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the raids targeted tents housing displaced people inside the Palestine Stadium in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of the city, resulting in the killing of four citizens and the injury of a number of others, including children, in addition to tents catching fire.
The Israeli occupation continues its bombing of the northern Gaza Strip, and Gaza City in particular, and the bombing and blowing up of homes and residential towers using booby-trapped robots, with the aim of forcing residents to be forcibly displaced and displacing the largest number of them to the center and south of the Strip.
Fires break out in the Israeli bombing of a residential home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza.
8:42 pm
Five citizens were killed and a number of others were injured, Saturday evening, when Israeli occupation forces’ bombed the cities of Khan Yunis and Gaza.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the occupation forces targeted a gathering of citizens on Al-Tarnis Street in the Al-Amal neighborhood, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing three and wounding a number of others.
He added that a citizen was martyred as a result of the occupation targeting a house near Tamraz station on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City, and a citizen was also killed as a result of the occupation targeting a house east of the Asqoula Junction in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.
He pointed out that a number of citizens were injured when occupation aircraft bombed a house belonging to the “Al-Sharif” family on Hamid Street, west of Gaza City.
Multiple Palestinians were reported injured in an Israeli occupation strike near a mobile phone charging point in western Gaza City.
7:50 pm
Two citizens were killed and others were injured, Saturday evening, in a bombing by the Israeli occupation forces on Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted several buildings in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, which led to the killing of at least two citizens and the injury of a number of others.
5 pm
Nasser Medical Hospital announced that two citizens seeking aid were killed by Israeli occupation forces’ fire near aid centers north of Rafah.
Al-Shifa Hospital also received 5 bodies after the occupation targeted a group of citizens in the Al-Karama area, northwest of Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation forces destroyed the Al-Nour Tower in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
A Palestinian infant severely wounded by brutal Israeli attacks screams in pain and fear as she is examined by doctors.
2:50 pm
Al-awda Hospital announced the death of a Palestinian civilian as a result of the Israeli occupation artillery shelling of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and a source at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza reported that an Israeli raid targeted the tunnel area northeast of the city, resulting in the killing of citizens and the injury of a number of other civilians.
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11:54 AM REPORT
Medical sources in Gaza reported that 65 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire since dawn on Friday, including 48 in Gaza City and the northern region of the Strip.
According to Al-Jazeera’s correspondent, Israeli forces also targeted civilian infrastructure, destroying a school sheltering displaced families and 16 residential buildings in Gaza City since Friday morning.
Israeli airstrikes over the past 24 hours have destroyed 17 homes and one displacement center in Gaza City, displacing hundreds of residents, and internally displaced persons in surrounding areas. The attacks also caused extensive damage to neighboring structures.
Among the targeted sites was the Jerusalem Bank in the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, which was leveled by Israeli warplanes.
A child was killed and several civilians injured by Israeli gunfire near the Sayyed Hashem Mosque in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
Several civilians sustained injuries when Israeli warplanes targeted a residential property on the Thawra Street in the Rimal neighborhood, located in western Gaza City.
After days of search efforts, civil defense teams recovered the bodies of several members of the Al-Hosari family from beneath the rubble of their home near Abu Halima station in the Shati refugee camp.
All were confirmed dead, including Nevin Nasman and her children Bara and Fuad Nader Al-Hosari, Eman Mohammad Al-Hosari, Dr. Yara Nader Al-Hosari, and engineer Ahmad Nader Al-Hosari, who had issued a distress call before succumbing due to delayed rescue and difficult conditions.
Israeli drones also launched strikes on homes near the Yarmouk neighborhood in central Gaza City. Concurrently, occupation forces opened fire on civilians gathered in central Gaza while awaiting humanitarian aid.
In northern Gaza, 14 members of the Al-Sultan family were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in the Twam neighborhood, with several others still missing under the debris.
In central Gaza, one civilian collecting wood in the village of Al-Mughraqa was killed, and several others were wounded near the U.S. aid distribution center.
In the south, former Rafah police chief Brigadier General Jasser Al-Mashoukhi was killed in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis.
Two more civilians were killed in the Rumeida area of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis. The Ministry of Health said ten people were killed in southern Gaza during the same 24-hour period.
The latest wave of attacks has included the systematic destruction of homes and residential towers, contributing to the ongoing mass displacement of civilians.
The bombardment campaign has included the deployment of remote-controlled explosive devices, referred to locally as “robot bombs,” within densely populated residential areas.
These bombings appear aimed at coercing forced displacement, pushing residents toward the central and southern regions of the Strip under increasingly dire humanitarian conditions.
Four Palestinians, one of them identified as Ibrahim Saed Diab, were killed, and many were wounded, by Israeli fire near an alleged aid distribution center in central Gaza.
Their deaths bring the number of slain Palestinians who were killed while attempting to obtain humanitarian aid for their starving families to ,more than 2,444, in addition to more than 18,091 wounded.
784 of the slain Palestinians were killed while awaiting humanitarian aid in Zikim, 607 near the American “aid center” in Rafah, and 429 near the “aid center” run by the American-run so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” in Netzarim.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated that the famine in Gaza is a direct consequence of restricted humanitarian access, the systematic destruction of vital infrastructure, and repeated assaults on relief operations.
He emphasized that he had never witnessed such a blatant disregard for the protected status of humanitarian personnel, facilities, and missions under international law.
In addition, Al-Jazeera said that Israeli security chiefs warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, that the military offensive in Gaza City could be prolonged without achieving its objectives, and that many residents may refuse to evacuate.
Despite these warnings, Netanyahu reportedly insisted on continuing the offensive, even as officials cautioned that hostages could be at risk.
On the diplomatic front, Al-Jazeera also reported that Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is scheduled to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday to discuss the situation in Gaza.
The meeting follows earlier talks with the U.S. Vice President and Secretary of State focused on the same issue.
Meanwhile, international condemnation of Israel’s recent strike on Doha continues to grow. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement denouncing the attack, expressing solidarity with Qatar, and calling for an immediate end to Israeli military operations in Gaza City.
On Friday, Israel killed 70 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, including wiping out whole families. As a result, the death toll has increased to 64,756 killed and 164,059 injured, the majority of whom are children, women, and elderly, in the Israeli occupation’s ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
