Relentless Israeli assaults kill over 77 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

More than 77 Palestinians have been killed in relentless Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn, including a strike that claimed the lives of 11 members of a single family.

The Health Ministry reported on Saturday that 265 others were wounded in Israel’s army onslaught over the past 24 hours in war-ravaged Gaza.

According to reports by local hospitals, at least 27 people were killed in war-ravaged Gaza City.

Among the dead were 17 people killed while waiting for food near US and Israel-backed distribution points. Another 89 aid seekers were wounded by gunfire.

Four Palestinians, including two children, have been killed in an Israeli drone attack in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a source at al-Awda Hospital tells Al Jazeera.

Israel’s remote-controlled quadcopters have been dropping bombs and firing on Palestinians in Gaza since the war began in October 2023.

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a home in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.

Civil defense teams are working to locate others missing in the rubble following the attack, reports said.

Residential buildings continue to be flattened as Israel presses ahead with its plan to seize Gaza City, the territory’s largest city.

Satellite imagery shows Israeli army vehicles tightening a stranglehold around Gaza City, surrounding it from all directions.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has reported that the worst-case scenario for the people of Gaza has been unfolding as the invasion of Gaza City continues.

“Starvation inflicts a devastating toll. The body weakens, the immune system collapses, and organs begin to fail. This is not ordinary hunger; it is a slow death [for Palestinians],” the IRC warned.

On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the United Nations General Assembly to continue targeting Gaza City and “finish the job,” disregarding international condemnation that such actions would worsen Gaza's humanitarian crisis.

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill several civilians, including children sheltering at home

Israeli airstrikes have killed over a dozen Palestinians, including children, in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Martin Griffiths, executive director of Mediation Group International (MGI), warned on Saturday that starvation in Gaza is spreading as Israeli troops press deeper into the north of the besieged territory.

“It is either displacement or death in Gaza City, or displacement and death in al-Mawasi,” Griffiths said, referring to the area in the south of the Strip designated by Israel as a “humanitarian zone.”

He added that hundreds of thousands of people are packed into a narrow stretch of sandy land in al-Mawasi with no healthcare or sanitary facilities.

Carl Skau, chief operating officer of the World Food Programme (WFP), says current aid flows into Gaza are “a drop in the ocean” and much higher volumes are needed.

Skau added that the WFP currently averages about 80 aid trucks a day into Gaza, where at least 500-600 are desperately needed.

He said the programme is not able to reach Palestinians in the north, where Israel is waging a heavy offensive on Gaza City, while the “complete breakdown of law and order” in the Strip means the most vulnerable are not receiving supplies.

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), warned on Thursday that the situation for the people of Gaza has become “absolutely unbearable.”

“I think it is very important to keep expressing total outrage on what is going on, and of course, and part of our frustration is that this outrage has not yet been translated into meaningful action, putting an end to the atrocity that we are recording on a daily basis,” he said.

In a post on X on Wednesday, he said that up to 4,000 child amputees have been recorded in Gaza since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal assault; the highest number per capita worldwide.

“The toll on children and childhood is beyond just the physical injury and the spreading hunger. Children’s scars are deep and invisible; anxiety, nightmares, aggression, and fear,” he wrote.

Since the Israeli assault began, “the children of Gaza have continued to spiral downward into the abyss of hell. Every day, for nearly two years, the equivalent of a classroom full of children has been killed,” he stated.

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 65,549 people and wounded 167,518 since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble.

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