Israel kills 21 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn
We have details on other deadly attacks by the Israeli military in Gaza that have killed at least 21 Palestinians since dawn.
- Four people have been killed and three injured in an attack targeting a tent sheltering displaced people in the as-Sudaniya area northwest of Gaza City.
- Four people have been killed and others injured in an attack on a house in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood west of Gaza City.
- Two people were killed and others were injured in an attack targeting the tents of displaced people east of the port in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
- Five people killed in an Israeli drone strike on tents sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area in southern Gaza.
- Others were killed and injured in an air strike targeting a home in central Gaza’s Bureij camp.
Israeli attacks on Gaza City, northern Gaza becoming increasingly intense
Just in the past few minutes, explosions could be clearly heard coming from the eastern part of Gaza City, with particular focus on the Zeitoun neighbourhood.
However, throughout the night, especially past midnight, drones, heavy artillery and fighter jets carried out a series of deadly strikes, many of them concentrated in the northern part of the Strip – in an area known as as-Sudaniya, off the coastal road near Beit Lahiya.
This area connects the northern Strip with the Gaza Governorate and is where a tent sheltering displaced people was recently hit by a drone strike.
It is important to note that the vast majority of people fleeing the northeastern part of Gaza City have been sheltering in this particular area.
In Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, a densely populated area where many families displaced from the city’s Shujayea and Tuffah areas have been sheltering inside whatever buildings remain, Israeli strikes also took place.
Elsewhere, four more people, including children, were killed in Israeli attacks in the central area of the Strip and the southern city of Khan Younis.
At least 41 people, including 6 aid seekers, killed in Gaza since dawn
Six aid seekers were among the 41 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn, sources in hospitals in the territory have told Al Jazeera. Among the dead aid seekers were at least three killed by Israeli gunfire near the so-called Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, sources said.
Situation in southern Gaza very dangerous: Medical charity chief
Mohammed Abu Afash, the director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a medical charity, has provided Al Jazeera with an update about the dire humanitarian situation in the coastal enclave.
Here is a summary of what he said:
- Israel refuses to allow civil defence personnel to treat the wounded.
- The army targets those waiting for aid and residents in their homes.
- Israel targets places it claims are safe.
- The situation in the south is very dangerous, and it cannot accommodate the population of Gaza City.
- Israel must not be allowed to oppress the people of Gaza and force them out of it.
Israeli army ends ‘tactical pause’ in Gaza City
The Israeli army says its so-called temporary daily “tactical pause” in Gaza, announced last month for humanitarian purposes, will no longer apply to Gaza City starting today in the morning.
“In accordance with the assessment of the situation and the instructions of the political echelon, starting today at 10:00 am (07:00 GMT), the tactical-local ceasefire of military activity will not apply to the Gaza City area, which constitutes a dangerous combat zone,” the military said in a statement on X.
The army added that it “will continue to support humanitarian efforts alongside ongoing manoeuvring and offensive operations”.
However, the Israeli military has been pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighbourhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere safe to go, as it seeks to seize the Strip’s largest urban centre.
Israel has destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City since it started its sustained assault on the city on August 6, according to estimates by the enclave’s Civil Defence.
