On Saturday July 5, 2025, day 636 of Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza, and day 108 since the Israeli military violated the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the ceasefire held only 51 days, from January 25th through March 18th, 2025, when Israel resumed its wholesale slaughter of the besieged and imprisoned Palestinian civilian population in Gaza), Israeli forces dropped bombs on the al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ for the fourth day in a row, killing dozens of civilians. This was just one of the numerous bombings and shellings carried out Saturday by the Israeli military against the starved, besieged and unarmed civilian population of 2.3 million people imprisoned inside the Gaza death camp.
Intense Israeli shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip began early in the morning Saturday and continued through the afternoon and into the evening — as has been the case every day in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
In addition to bombing civilians in tent camps and so-called ‘safe areas’, Israeli forces also bombed Gaza’s desalination plant Saturday morning.
Today’s massacres followed a series of massacres committed by Israeli forces on Friday, which mainly targeted starving civilians trying to obtain food from the ‘Squid Game’ style gladiator arenas set up by the US-based Christian Zionist corporation “GHF”. More than 70 Palestinian civilians were killed on Friday, many of whom were starving aid seekers trying desperately to compete for a bag of flour or a few cans of food to bring to their starving families in the makeshift camps of the displaced.
Since May 27th, when the US-based Christian Zionist company “GHF” took over aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, replacing 400 distribution sites with just 4 ‘Squid Games’ style arenas where Palestinians are forced to wait many hours, then fight each other for small scraps of food, massacres at the so-called ‘aid sites’ have become a daily occurrence, with an average of 30 – 50 Palestinians killed each day, with at least 600 Palestinians killed in these ‘gladiator arenas’ since May 27th, 2025. These attacks have increased in recent days as the Israeli-funded gangs have been given more weapons by Israel to strong-arm aid and sell the aid for incredibly exorbitant prices.
On Saturday, Israeli troops killed at least 9 Palestinians competing for scraps of food in the ‘Hunger Games’ style gladiator arena set up by the US company GHF.
The Middle East Eye reported Saturday that a former CIA officer is behind a mercenary company operating in Gaza, backed by a network of influence including figures linked to the UAE.
Also, Carl Skau, the World Food Programme’s Deputy Executive Director, reported from Gaza that 500,000 Palestinians are facing starvation, with people now risking their lives to get their hands on a bag of wheat flour. “The entire population is acutely food insecure,” he added.
The following attacks were documented by local sources in Gaza on Saturday:
11:30 pm
Five Palestinians, including four small children, were killed and others injured on Saturday evening when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced persons west of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that five civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli drone strike on a tent housing displaced persons east of the Shafi’i camp, west of Khan Yunis. The wounded were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex in the city.
The reporter explained that among those killed were four children: Yazan (12 years old), Amjad (10 years old), Muhannad (7 years old), and Muhammad Fahd Abu Al-Khair (6 years old).
Medical sources reported that the death toll from Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Saturday has risen to 78, including children.
Since October 7 , 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it .
This war left more than 193,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children .
Also Saturday, doctors in Gaza warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death due to a severe shortage of baby formula, as Israel continues to restrict humanitarian aid. “They’re just skin and bones. It’s horrifying,” said Dr. al-Farra, describing the condition of malnourished children arriving at hospitals in Gaza.
6:33 pm
Six citizens were killed and others injured on Saturday evening in an Israeli drone strike on a café west of Az-Zawayda town in central Gaza Strip.
Earlier, eight civilians, including children, were killed and others were injured after the occupation forces bombed a gathering of civilians in Camp 2 in Nuseirat, central Gaza .
A number of citizens were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a water desalination plant near the Bank of Palestine in the Unknown Soldier area of the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
The Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings in the vicinity of the Al-Katiba and Al-Mahta areas, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
4:30 pm
A number of Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured on Saturday evening after the Israeli occupation forces bombed areas in Gaza City and the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that eight civilians, including six children, were killed and several others were injured after an Israeli drone bombed a group of civilians in Camp 2 in Nuseirat, central Gaza.
Dead and wounded transported by horse cart, with no fuel for vehicles, and most ambulances destroyed by Israeli bombing:
The Israeli occupation army blew up residential buildings in the vicinity of the Al-Katiba and Al-Mahta areas, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
2:45 pm
Eight Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured on Saturday after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood and Jabalia Al-Balad in the Gaza Strip.
Wafa news correspondents reported that four citizens were killed and several others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of a house near Salah al-Din Mosque in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Four Palestinian citizens were killed and several others were injured after an Israeli drone bombed the Jabalia al-Balad area in the northern Gaza Strip.
11:58 am
Fifteen Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, and the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in the eastern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces opened fire near an American aid center north of Rafah, killing nine civilians and wounding more than 40.
Four citizens were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
A source at Al-Ma’madani Hospital reported that the bodies of two Palestinians were recovered after the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
10:30 am
Amid Gaza’s worsening water crisis, intensified by Israel’s deliberate targeting of infrastructure and the blockade of the main plant supplying most areas of Gaza, Israeli aircraft bombed a water desalination facility in the Al-Rimal neighborhood today.
The plant was located near the Bank of Palestine in the Unknown Soldier area of the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
At least three Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured while waiting to collect water.
Also, Israeli drones dropped bombs on a clinic in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, according to local sources.
8:40 am
Medical sources reported that 19 Palestinian citizens were killed early Saturday morning, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli artillery shelled the Zarqa area east of Gaza City, killing at least one civilian and wounding others.
They added that five civilians were killed and others injured in a bombing that targeted Al-Shafi’i School in the Asqoula area of the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, coinciding with the occupation’s demolition of residential buildings east of the city.
Wafa news correspondents said that Israeli drones targeted a house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two civilians and wounding others.
They added that two dead Palestinians arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Al-Maghazi camp.
Local sources reported that seven civilians were killed and more than 10 injured in a new massacre perpetrated by the occupation forces at dawn, targeting the tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Wounded Palestinian Omar Musa Khafaja is the sole survivor of an Israeli airstrike that wiped out his entire family in their tent in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis:
A citizen and his only son were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing west of Khan Yunis.
Hope for a ceasefire:
From Wafa news: In the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, a shy expression of joy appeared on the faces of displaced people, amid growing talk of an imminent temporary truce in the Gaza Strip, ending months of bombing, displacement, and human suffering .
Citizens in Gaza, especially the displaced who left their homes more than twenty months ago, are waiting for any glimmer of hope that life will return to some semblance of normalcy, away from the sounds of explosions and the lack of shelter, food, and medicine.
Rahaf Abu Khater (13 years old), displaced from the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, gave her mother the key to her old room. Despite knowing that their home was completely destroyed, the girl still holds onto hope of returning and aspires to return to school after the war deprived her of two years of education .
Rahaf says she misses her toys and her simple life before the war, and is waiting to return with her father, who was arrested for six months while returning from his work inside the 1948 territories before the war. Now he is trying to reorganize their life in the tent that shelters them .
As for Rahaf’s cousin, Mohammed, who is no more than ten years old, he hopes that the war will end so that his mother can travel abroad for treatment after being injured by shrapnel that confined her to the hospital bed. He hopes that she will be allowed to travel abroad for treatment before it is too late and she becomes completely paralyzed.
He says that losing his mother would be the hardest thing for him – he just wishes to see her return to their home and cook for them as she used to.
Mohammed entrusts his wish to human rights organizations, asking them to help expedite his mother’s travel to receive treatment before it is too late.
Hope remains and the timer is stopped until a ceasefire is officially announced and everyone is able to return to their homes and set up their tents in the ruins of their houses .
One displaced Palestinian, Barakat Abu Daqqa (59 years old) expressed his hope that the war would end soon so that he could return to his hometown of Al-Farahin, whose homes were completely destroyed .
Abu Daqqa said: “I had hoped to return to my home, which was destroyed two months ago, to spend the rest of my life there, far from the tent life and the suffering that lasted during the war, which we hope will end forever .”
