On Sunday, Israeli forces continued their brutal assault on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, dropping bombs on civilian families in southern Gaza.
At least 43 Palestinians were killed on Sunday in a number of Israeli bombings, including bombings that targeted displaced Palestinian families living in camps that had been designated as ‘safe areas’ by the Israeli army.
7:37 pm:
Fifteen Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday evening when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shelled a house east of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that 15 citizens were killed and others injured when Israeli aircraft bombed the Siyam family’s home on Nakhil Street in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The correspondent added that two civilians were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent for displaced people in the Abasan area east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army also carried out bombing operations in the northern areas of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 52,535 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 118,491 others. This is a preliminary toll, with a number of victims still under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.
4:50 pm update:
The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday has risen to 23, including 19 in the southern Gaza Strip .
In Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, a Wafa news correspondent reported the killing of citizen Nisreen Al-Abd Qassem, and the injury of others, as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of the home of the family of journalist Rami Abu Shamala in the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis.
Four citizens from the Qanan family were also killed in a bombing that targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city .
Ibrahim Bassem al-Najjar was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Wadi Saber area, south of the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis. Meanwhile, Salem al-Jabour and Bayan Naji Hussein al-Najjar died of wounds they sustained in a previous bombardment of the city .
Earlier, ten civilians, including seven women and a child, were killed in an attack targeting a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
A Wafa news correspondent also reported that the body of the child Saif Abdel Rahman Al-Sinwar was recovered, as a result of the bombing that targeted the Al-Bayram family home in Khan Yunis camp yesterday.
In the central Gaza Strip, citizen Fatima Raed Ahmed Abu Huwaishel was killed, and eight others were injured in a bombing that targeted the Abu Huwaishel family home in the Nuseirat camp .
In Gaza City, citizen Mohammed Habib (33 years old) was killd, and his wife was injured, after the Israeli occupation forces targeted the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of the city .
In the northern Gaza Strip, citizen Hassan Zakaria Al-Za’anin was killed as a result of the serious wounds he sustained in an Israeli bombardment on the town of Beit Hanoun a few days ago.
In the same context, rescue crews reported finding the body of Khaled Ahmed Al-Kafarna on the roof of Al-Shawa School in the town of Beit Hanoun.
10:30 am update:
A number of Palestinian citizens were killed and injured since before dawn on Sunday when Israeli warplanes bombed various areas in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported, citing medical sources, that a citizen, his wife, and their two children, from the family of freed prisoner Munir Qannan, were killed when their apartment near the Al-Attar station in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis was targeted.
The same sources added that a Palestinian citizen was killed when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent belonging to the family of the freed prisoner, Basem Al-Najjar, south of Abasan Al-Kabira.
In addition, a woman was killed as a result of the occupation’s bombing of a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli occupation continues to fire heavy bullets in the areas of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
Six civilians were injured, two of them seriously, when a tent was bombed west of the town of Al-Qarara.
A number of injured people arrived at Al-Awda Hospital after the occupation targeted a Palestinian home in Nuseirat.
A Palestinian mother bids farewell to her daughter, bride Hala Zurob, and her groom, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Khan Younis—just one day after their wedding.
Several children were pulled out alive from the flames after their home was targeted in Khan Younis:
Umm Al-Nour, a 30-year-old Palestinian woman, was left paralyzed and lost three of her children in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their tent.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 52,495 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 118,366 others. This is a preliminary toll, with a number of victims still under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue teams.
Meanwhile, the UNRWA Media Advisor Adnan Abu Hasna confirmed that the agency has no flour stocks in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Hasna explained that death, disease, and hunger are a triangle of terror ravaging the people of the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out that UNRWA will not be part of the Israeli occupation’s plan to discriminate between people in the distribution of aid within Gaza.
For his part, Marwan Al-Hams, director of field hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, confirmed that cases of infection and death due to malnutrition are on the rise.
He explained that the Gaza Strip has witnessed 53 deaths from malnutrition since the beginning of the genocidal war, noting that skin and infectious diseases are spreading throughout the Strip.
He explained that thousands of children and women are queuing at aid sites to receive food, noting that a baby girl was born yesterday in the Gaza Strip without a brain due to food shortages.
The Israeli occupation continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and has closed the crossings since last March, after Netanyahu reneged on the ceasefire agreement.
