The Israeli onslaught against the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continued on Saturday with excessive bombardment continuing in all parts of Gaza, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians.
In Gaza City, the army fired missiles at Khalifa School, where dozens of displaced families were taking shelter. The attack killed at least three individuals and wounded many others, including several children and women.
The army also launched artillery shells targeting the eastern areas of Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
In Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, the army fired a missile at the Al-Bassa area, killing at least one Palestinian and injuring several others.
In Khan Younis, located in the southern part of Gaza, the army shelled displaced Palestinians in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area, killing at least one individual and wounding several others. Additionally, the army launched a missile at a home belonging to the Sharab family in the Al-Manara neighborhood, in the center of Khan Younis.
#ICYMI: Israel bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants, which supplied clean drinking water. Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst than being killed by an Israeli attack. pic.twitter.com/Rkz4JiO1Ry
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 12, 2025
Several Palestinians sustained injuries when an Israeli military quadcopter drone fired live rounds at them in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
In Rafah, situated in Gaza’s southernmost part, the army wired and detonated multiple homes and buildings in the Al-Mawasi area, in the western part of the city.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) issued an urgent warning regarding the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. UNRWA highlighted that essential supplies in the region are nearing total depletion, placing infants and children at risk of severe hunger.
In a statement released on Saturday, Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s Director of Communications, called for immediate action to address the crisis. Touma explained that six weeks of an Israeli-imposed blockade have entirely halted the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies into Gaza. She emphasized that food stocks are nearly exhausted, bakeries have shut down, and hunger is spreading rapidly across the area.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 50,933 Palestinians and injured over 116,450, with women and children comprising the majority of the casualties. This preliminary figure excludes those still trapped under rubble or in inaccessible locations, where rescue teams cannot reach.
The ongoing Israeli blockade continues to worsen the humanitarian crisis, prompting urgent calls for intervention to alleviate further suffering and loss of life.
Published on: Apr 12, 2025 at 20:58: A number of Palestinian citizens were killed on Saturday evening when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a school sheltering displaced persons in northern Gaza.
Medical sources reported that at least three civilians were killed and several others, including children, were injured after Israeli aircraft bombed the Khalifa School, which was sheltering displaced persons in the northern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian citizen was killed and others were injured after the occupation forces bombed a group of citizens in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
A number of citizens were injured after Israeli quadcopter drones fired at a group of citizens east of the al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
“Dad, don’t leave us, Dad.”
A heartbroken Palestinian girl bids farewell to her father, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, last night:
5:50 pm: A number of citizens were killed and others injured on Saturday evening when Israeli warplanes targeted areas in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.
WAFA news correspondents reported that one citizen was killed and several others were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of citizens near the Electricity Distribution Company headquarters in the Al-Thalathini area of Gaza City.
The occupation army blew up residential buildings in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip .
The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression on October 7, 2023, has risen to 50,933, and the number of injuries to 116,450.
“Dad, don’t leave us, Dad.”
A heartbroken Palestinian girl bids farewell to her father, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, last night.
Update from 12:58 pm:
Image from the pre-dawn bombardment of Gaza City:
Three Palestinians were killed and others injured on Saturday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shelled a house east of Gaza City and a tent sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis.
Local sources reported that an Israeli drone bombed a home belonging to the Kahil family on Nakhil Street, east of the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, killing two civilians.
In addition, a citizen was killed and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced people on Abu Kaware’ Street in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Quds news reports that the social media-famous smiling baby Tasneem Yousef Rajab and her grandmother lost their lives in the same Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in Beit Lahyia, northern Gaza.
The occupation artillery also bombed the Qizan Rashwan area, south of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli occupation army destroyed Al-Tahrir Petrol station east of Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip, one of the only places able to provide fuel to power generators for emergency services. Most of Gaza has been without electricity and fuel for 18 months.
Palestinian rights group Al-Haq reported that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the last 36 Israeli attacks on Gaza had killed only women and children.
“Israel is purposely targeting” women and children in Gaza, Al-Haq said, adding that both it and the UN’s international commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and East Jerusalem had reached such a conclusion.
“Such a calculated effort to exterminate women, boys, girls & even infants, has not been witnessed in any other modern conflict,” Al-Haq said in a post on social media.
“While being targeted with heavy weaponry, they are forced to endure a total blockade on humanitarian aid – now for a 2nd month in a row,” the group said.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression on October 7, 2023, has risen to 50,912, and the number of injuries has risen to 115,981.
Meanwhile, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, described the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip as “hell on earth,” warning that supplies at the ICRC’s field hospital will run out within two weeks .
“We now find ourselves in a situation I would have to describe as hell on earth,” Spoljaric told Reuters from the committee’s Geneva headquarters. “People in many areas have no access to water, electricity, or food.”
She added that supplies were dangerously low, “For six weeks nothing has come in, so within two weeks we will run out of the supplies we need to keep the hospital running.”
The World Health Organization said supplies of antibiotics and blood bags were running out rapidly. Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO representative in the Palestinian territories, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Jerusalem that 22 of the Strip’s 36 hospitals were operating at minimal capacity .
The President of the Red Cross also expressed concern about the safety of humanitarian operations .
“Population movement is very dangerous, but it is especially dangerous for our work,” Spoljaric said.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced on Friday that Gaza is approaching “extreme hunger” as basic supplies in the Strip are running out, due to the ongoing Israeli closure of the crossings since March 2 .
“With the Israeli blockade on Gaza continuing for more than six weeks, all essential supplies are running out,” UNRWA Director of Media and Communications Juliette Touma said in a statement.
Touma explained that the depletion of basic supplies is accompanied by a “significant increase in the prices” of goods available in Gaza over the past month, since Israel imposed its blockade on the Strip. This means that infants and children are going to bed hungry.
Touma stressed that without these “essential supplies, the Gaza Strip is approaching extreme hunger every day,” calling for an immediate resumption of the ceasefire in Gaza, lifting the blockade, and allowing unimpeded entry of humanitarian and commercial supplies.
On March 2, Israel closed the Gaza Strip’s crossings to the entry of humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, causing an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian situation.
