DaysofPal – Israel launched a new wave of deadly airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday morning, killing at least 60 Palestinians, including 27 who were waiting for humanitarian aid, according to medical officials in Gaza.
The latest escalation targeted several already bombed areas across the Strip. In Gaza City, airstrikes and artillery fire hit homes and makeshift shelters in Al-Tuffah, Sheikh Radwan, Al-Rimal, and Al-Shujaiya. Dozens were killed and wounded, with scenes of chaos and destruction repeated everywhere.
At Al-Shifa Hospital, medical staff said four civilians were killed and ten wounded at dawn in a strike on a house on Jaffa Street in Al-Tuffah. In another attack, Israeli warplanes bombed an apartment in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City, and more casualties were reported.
A building housing displaced families in the Rimal neighborhood was also hit, killing four and wounding others. Palestinian media reported that artillery shelling and heavy fire from Israeli naval vessels accompanied the airstrikes, especially in the city’s eastern and northern areas.
In Jabalia, in the north of the Strip, an Israeli drone fired on residential homes in the Zarqa area, while in the east of the town, occupation forces carried out large-scale demolitions of homes early Saturday.
The attacks extended southward as well. In Khan Younis, airstrikes pounded the densely populated Al-Mawasi coastal area, home to thousands of displaced families, killing at least seven in a single strike on tents just before midnight, according to Kuwait Field Hospital. Another person was killed in a separate strike on the same area hours later.
Among the victims was former prisoner Imad Mansour, according to Palestinian sources. Mansour is the latest in a string of targeted killings of released prisoners; just days earlier, six other freed detainees, five of them deported under the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange, were killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah.
The violence continued in central Gaza, where four Palestinians were killed and several others injured in overnight strikes on Deir al-Balah. Israeli artillery shelled the northern edges of Nuseirat refugee camp at dawn. Palestinian officials say Israeli warplanes and drones also hit aid distribution centers, a trend that has exacerbated the starvation and suffering of Gaza’s population.
Since the latest Israeli aggression started in March, over 7,300 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 26,000 injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead are 800 who were killed while waiting for food aid, many at sites run by US-backed contractors with the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
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