Gaza city: Twenty-one Palestinians were killed and several others injured today as a result of Israeli gunfire and shelling targeting people waiting for food aid as well as homes and tents of displaced people in various areas of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling targeting groups of citizens in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City. A number of unspecified casualties were also reported when Israeli aircraft targeted a group of citizens on Mushtaha Street in the same neighborhood.
According to Qatar News Agency, Al Shifa Hospital said in a statement that two citizens and several others were injured after Israeli forces continued bombing and opening fire at people seeking aid in the Zikim area, northwest of the Gaza Strip, since this morning. In a related development, two citizens were reported injured and missing under the rubble after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.
In the central Gaza Strip, Al-Awda Hospital announced that three citizens were killed and several others injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a gathering of civilians near the aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area. The hospital also reported that two other citizens, including a child, were killed in an Israeli shelling east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In the southern Gaza Strip, four citizens from the same family were killed as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a tent in the Al Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis. Other injuries occurred as a result of another Israeli shelling of a tent near the Tiberias area west of the city.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, has left 61,369 dead and 152,850 injured, most of them children and women. Over 9,000 people remain missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that has claimed the lives of many amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.