Violent raids, house bombings, and internet outages in Gaza
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Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on gatherings of starving people waiting for food aid in central and southern Gaza. The United Nations confirmed that Israel has been preventing fuel from entering Gaza for 17 weeks, followed by an internet blackout.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that at least 41 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes, including 11 people waiting for humanitarian aid near Al-Alam Roundabout, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, and in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, while trying to reach aid near the Shuhada Junction.
In Gaza City, three people were killed in an airstrike on the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of the city. Three brothers were also killed in a bombing that targeted Mansoura Street in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of the city. One person was also reported killed in a shooting incident northwest of Khan Yunis. Three brothers from the Obeid family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday morning that targeted a house in the Mansoura area of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Medical sources announced on Saturday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,908, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on October 7, 2023. The same sources added that the number of injuries has risen to 131,138, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense crews.
