DaysofPal– At least 32 Palestinians have been killed and more than 60 injured in the latest wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The ministry also reported that 11 people were burned to death in Khan Younis as a result of Israeli shelling.
Medical sources said the Israeli occupation forces carried out strikes across various areas of Gaza, targeting homes, tents for the displaced, civilian gatherings, and even heavy machinery.
“Several victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense crews,” the ministry said in a statement on Telegram.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, at least nine Palestinians were killed when a residential house in the city center was shelled. In the Jabalia refugee camp, located in the northern part of the Strip, eight Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes.
The first strike hit a tent sheltering displaced members of the Abu Qamar family, killing five. The second strike targeted a group of civilians in the Bir al-Naja’a area, killing three.
In Gaza City, five people were killed, and several others injured when an Israeli shell hit a house belonging to the Bakr family in the Al-Shati refugee camp, located in the western part of the city.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army continued to demolish residential buildings across the Gaza Strip, particularly in Rafah, Khan Younis, and eastern Gaza.
According to Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, the Israeli military “blew up more than ten houses east of Gaza City and in Rafah,” while an airstrike also destroyed bulldozers and equipment belonging to the Jabalia municipality, severely hampering efforts to recover bodies from the rubble.
Basal emphasized that the Israeli army specifically targeted the remaining heavy equipment in Gaza, which had been used to search for survivors and retrieve bodies from beneath destroyed buildings.
The Gaza government media office has warned of an imminent and complete humanitarian collapse in the Strip, as Israel continues to impose a total blockade and prevent the entry of humanitarian aid.
Officials say the territory is now facing a famine, with 1.1 million children suffering from severe malnutrition and the health system teetering on the edge of collapse.
The media office also reported that the Israeli military has bombed more than 37 aid distribution centers and 28 food huts, describing the targeting as part of a “systematic starvation policy.”
The humanitarian crisis has intensified since the collapse of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that had been brokered by Egypt and Qatar with support from the United States.
The first phase of the agreement, reached on January 19 between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), ended in early March. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly backtracked on the second phase of the agreement and resumed military operations on March 18 in response to pressure from the most extreme members of his right-wing coalition.
Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, over 168,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded, the majority of them children and women, according to health officials in Gaza. Additionally, more than 11,000 people remain missing, presumed trapped under rubble or dead.
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