On Thursday, August 14, day 678 of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and wholesale destruction of all infrastructure and homes in the Strip, Israeli forces continued their attack with massive bombings of some of the last remaining residential areas in Gaza.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that the Israeli army killed 32 Palestinians—including 13 who were seeking humanitarian aid—and injured dozens more. They added that many of the casualties are women and children.
Temperatures in Gaza are soaring above 40°C (104°F), making an already desperate situation far worse. With very limited water available, dehydration is increasing.
Bombardments and forced displacement continue. With limited electricity and fuel, there is no relief from the extreme heat.
Medical sources announced on Thursday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 61,776, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023.
The same sources added that the injury toll has risen to 154,906 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.
Over the past 24 hours, Israeli forces killed 54 Palestinians and wounded 831, while the death toll and injuries since March 18, when the Israeli occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, has reached 10,251 killed and 42,865 wounded.
The number of people killed at the US-run ‘aid’ sites over the past 24 hours was 22, with 269 injured, bringing the total number of livelihood victims who arrived at hospitals to 1,881, and the total number of injured to 13,863.
Over the past 24 hours, Gaza Strip hospitals recorded four deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the total number to 239, including 106 children.
Al-Zaytoun Assault Continues:
Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City has been the hardest hit this week, with over 300 homes destroyed in the past three days alone.
Thursday morning, Israeli bombardment hit two residential towers in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City:
Eight citizens were killed and others injured on Thursday morning when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Local sources said that rescue and civil defense teams recovered eight civilians killed after Israeli drones bombed the home of the Kashkou family in the Zaytoun neighborhood.
Football players killed:
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said that 8 Palestinian players from the Palestinian sports movement have been killed since the beginning of August, bringing the death toll of athletes killed in the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 668, including 339 football players. The latest athletes killed were Islam Nafeth Matar, a player from Al-Aqsa Club, and Moamen Aliwa, a player from the second team of Ittihad Al-Shuja’iyya Club.
Martyr Matar was killed on the second of this month while waiting for aid in the central Gaza Strip, while Aliwa was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a journalists’ tent last Sunday.
The Federation explained that this August follows the month of July, which saw the deaths of 40 athletes. At the beginning of this month, Suleiman Al-Obeid, the former star of the national football team, and Alaa Rafiq Al-Madhoun, the wrestler, were killed at US-run ‘aid’ sites where dozens of Palestinians are shot to death each day while seeking food for their starving families.
Also killed this month were Nasrallah Mohammed Nasrallah Al-Muqata’a, a player from Ittihad Deir al-Balah, Alaa Jumaa Al-Hawajri, a player from Services Al-Nuseirat, and Mahmoud Rafeh Shaheen, a player from Al-Tuffah Club.
Palestinian baseball player Mustafa Ahmed Tafesh was also killed in an Israeli airstrike near his home.
Children deprived of education, starved to death:
The UNRWA Commissioner-General said nearly one million children in Gaza are deprived of education, suffering from hunger and severe psychological trauma due to the ongoing siege and Israeli attacks. He added that at least 100 children have died from malnutrition, and around 17,000 are unaccompanied or separated from their families, worsening the humanitarian crisis.
Human Rights Watch warned that Israeli attacks on schools will disrupt education for years, as rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure will require extensive time and resources.
Nasser Hospital flooded:
Intense Israeli attacks on Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, including the deliberate destruction of wells, have turned the Nasser Medical Hospital into a medical and environmental catastrophe.
Systematic Israeli attacks on the Strip intend to make hospitals, which receive hundreds of patients per day, non-functional.
Starvation deaths:
Medical sources announced on Thursday the death of four citizens in the past 24 hours due to malnutrition and famine in the Gaza Strip.
The sources indicated that the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has risen to 239 martyrs, including 106 children.
It is noteworthy that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, due to the blockade and shortages of food and medical supplies, as the severe famine overlaps with the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation since October 7, 2023 .
Since March 2, 2025, the occupation authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of most food and medical aid, causing a famine outbreak within the Strip .
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) warned that malnutrition among children under the age of five doubled between March and June, as a result of the ongoing blockade .
The World Health Organization confirmed that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels, that the deliberate blockade and delays in aid have caused many lives lost, and that nearly one in five children under the age of five in Gaza City suffers from severe malnutrition.
An Ode to Journalist Anas al-Sharif, Executed by Israel on Monday:
Gazan artist Mohanad Abo Qamar sings a farewell anthem to journalist Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues who were killed in a deliberate Israeli attack on their press tent in Gaza City.
Palestinian journalist’s imprisonment extended:
Israeli occupation authorities extend the detention, by two months, of Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi, who was held in administrative detention since November of 2023 without proper trial or charge.
Al-Rimawi was detained after the October 7 Al-Aqsa flood operation, after which Israel’s war on journalists in Gaza and the occupied West Bank intensified.
Since October 7, 140 journalists have been detained in the West Bank and at least 270 deliberately killed in Gaza.
Verified attacks by Israeli forces on Palestinian civilians on Thursday:
3 pm:
One Palestinian was reported killed and multiple wounded in the Israeli bombing of a residential building south of Gaza City.
Israeli occupation forces detonate residential buildings east of Jabalia al-Balad, northern Gaza Strip.
2 pm:
Israeli occupation aircraft heavily bombard central Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Casualties unknown.
11 am:
A group of aid seekers, including children, were shot and killed by Israeli forces at the GHF death traps in Gaza.
10 am:
Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a group of citizens near an aid center north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing five citizens and wounding dozens.
Two were killed in a bombing that targeted the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Citizen Amal Salem Al-Amur also died from wounds she sustained in a previous attack on her tent in Khan Yunis.
