On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, day 656 of the Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza, the bombardments and forced displacements continued, resulting in killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including a journalist and her children. 53 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip .
Since the Israeli occupation army issued forced evacuation orders for Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Sunday, the city has been under relentless and intense Israeli airstrikes for the third day in a row.
A Palestinian man describes what he went through to obtain a bag of flour for his starving family:
American soldiers point their weapons and throw grenades at starved Palestinian civilians searching for food near the U.S.-Israeli death traps.
UPDATE: 11:50 pm:
A starving Palestinian man was gunned down by Israeli occupation forces while waiting for aid northwest of Gaza City.
Five citizens were killed and others were injured, some seriously, in an Israeli artillery attack targeting people waiting for aid trucks northwest of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip .
Eight citizens were also killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a gathering of citizens on Al-Ishrin Street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip .
In the southern Gaza Strip, a citizen was killed and more than 10 others were injured in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
Before that, 44 citizens were killed by the occupation forces’ fire and raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip (see details below).
Updated from 11:18 am report:
Seven civilians, including children, were killed and others wounded on Wednesday morning when the Israeli occupation forces shelled a residential apartment in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
A WAFA news correspondent reported that the occupation forces bombed an apartment belonging to the Al-Sha’er family near the Al-Falah Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, killing nine civilians.
Among the slain Palestinian is journalist and expectant mother Walaa al-Jaabari, her five children, and her husband Amjad Sha’er.
Their slain children are Hasan, Ezzeddin, Mira, Amir, Fadi, in addition to her fetus.
In her final post on Facebook, al-Jaabari wrote: “I’m not afraid of dying from hunger… I’m afraid of the heartbreak if this mad war doesn’t end.”
Ambulance crews were also injured when the occupation forces bombed an ambulance near Hamad Rehabilitation Hospital, northwest of Gaza City .
With the killing of Walaa al-Jaabari, the number of journalists killed since the beginning of the year has risen to 34, while the number of journalists who were killed by Israel is now 231.
According to a recent semi-annual press freedom report issued by the Journalists’ Syndicate, the first half of this year saw a sharp escalation in attacks against journalists. Forty-one of their family members were also killed, 32 homes belonging to media workers were destroyed, and 66 journalists were injured—most from shrapnel and live ammunition.
Medical sources reported that the occupation’s bombing resulted in injuries among medical crews who were carrying out their humanitarian duties of transporting the wounded and injured from the area .
On Tuesday, 85 Palestinian citizens, including at least 31 “aid-seekers,” were killed and dozens more injured by the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian child was killed and others injured as Israeli occupation forces bombed a displacement tent in Al-Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it .
The genocide left more than 201,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and a famine that continues to claim the lives of many Palestinians.
Dr. Ahmad Al-Farra, head of pediatrics at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, warns that the deepening malnutrition crisis among children is a result of “primary starvation”, a complete absence of calorie intake rather than poor diet.
He explains that even children who were born healthy are now facing severe, life-threatening malnutrition and require urgent medical intervention.
Amnesty International said that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing mass starvation, and a permanent ceasefire must be implemented, along with the entry and distribution of aid. The organization confirmed that the Israeli army is preventing aid from entering Gaza, bombing shelters, and turning food, water, and medicine into weapons of war.
It’s worth noting that more than 100 international humanitarian organizations launched an urgent appeal this morning to allow life-saving aid into the Gaza Strip.
These organizations called on governments around the world to take immediate action to open all land crossings with the Gaza Strip, restore the full flow of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter, and fuel through a preliminary UN-led mechanism, end the blockade, and agree to an immediate ceasefire, exactly two months after the Israeli government-controlled Gaza Humanitarian Fund began operating.
The Norwegian Refugee Council had previously announced that its aid stocks in Gaza had been completely depleted, noting that some of its staff were themselves suffering from hunger. It directly accused Israel of paralyzing the organization’s work and preventing it from fulfilling its humanitarian role.
