Israeli strikes kill nearly 10 Gazans, including two children, in new aggression

The Israeli regime has carried out deadly airstrikes on several areas across the Gaza Strip as the occupying entity cranks up its gory aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory after scrapping a ceasefire deal last month.

Palestinian resistance media reported on Tuesday that nine people, including two children, lost their lives and several others sustained injuries in a fresh round of Israeli airstrikes in the middle of a night on a house in the center of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The reports said Israel’s artillery shelling continues east of Shuja'iyya and Tuffah neighborhoods and has been nonstop for five hours, with the occupation forces repeatedly blowing up buildings north of Rafah and east of Gaza City.

The Israeli forces were reported to be bombing bulldozers in the Gaza municipality in Sabra neighborhood, also targeting bulldozers in the Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Yunis.

Palestinian resistance media said the regime’s violent airstrikes on Khan Yunis had targeted civil defense equipment and heavy machinery, resulting in a massive fire.

“From Beit Lahia to Rafah, the IOF is specifically targeting equipment used to rescue wounded and recover martyrs in the dead of the night,” the reports added.

“Tonight, IOF warplanes are specifically targeting bulldozers and heavy machinery of municipalities from the north to the south of the Strip, with the aim of decimating what is left of the civil defense equipment in order to exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe of the Gaza Strip.”

Heavy shelling and bombardments by the occupation forces were also reported near the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip as well as in Abasan al-Kabira, Mawasi and Qizan al-Najjar neighborhoods in Khan Yunis.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Monday that Israel had massacred nearly 600 children across Gaza since the regime resumed its genocidal war in March.

Nearly 600 children killed in renewed Israeli assault on Gaza: UN agency

UNRWA says Israel has massacred nearly 600 children across Gaza since the regime resumed its genocidal war in March.

Citing figures released by the UN children’s agency (UNICEF), UNRWA said over 1,600 other children were also injured after Israel resumed its assaults on March 18.

UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.

The Israeli military ramped up airstrikes and expanded its ground offensives in Gaza after shattering a nearly two-month ceasefire with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in mid-March.

The Israeli regime was forced in January to agree to a ceasefire deal with Hamas given the regime’s failure to achieve any of its objectives, including the “elimination” of the Palestinian resistance movement or the release of captives.

At least 1,864 Gazans have been killed and nearly 4,900 injured since March 18. Overall, more than 51,200 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel is also currently facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its actions in the besieged region.

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