Twelve aid seekers are among fifty four Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza since Friday morning as Israel continues to slay the starving.
A series of Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least fifty four Palestinians, including twelve of which was attempting to get hold of vitally needed aid, as Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave continues unabated.
The Israeli army killed eight Palestinians, including five children, and injured several others in an airstrike on the Osama bin Zaid School, which houses displaced people in the Saftawi neighbourhood north of Gaza City.
At least ten Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a gathering of civilians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, medical sources claimed.
In Rafah, six Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli forces opened fire at civilians near the Al-Shakoush area close to another aid distribution point northwest of the city.
Additionally, two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the town of Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.
Early Friday morning, eight Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a gathering near the Shaaban Al-Reis School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, medical sources at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital told Turkish news site Anadolu.
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In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and others wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd near a humanitarian aid distribution point south of Al-Tineh Street, medics said.
Two more people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.
Medical sources reported that the eleven fatalities were also brought to the Nasser Medical Complex on Friday morning.
In Gaza City, a fisherman was killed by Israeli naval fire, medical sources at Al-Shifa Medical Complex reported.
Further casualties were reported in central Gaza. Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat received the body of one person and forty three wounded civilians following an Israeli attack on crowds waiting for humanitarian aid along Salah Al-Din Street in Wadi Gaza.
Three more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack targeting aid seekers near the Nabulsi roundabout southwest of Gaza City.
In Khan Younis, artillery strikes and home demolitions continued in the northern parts of the city, intensifying the already dire humanitarian situation.
Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 56,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
Gaza killing field
The latest death toll from Palestinians seeking aid comes amid a shocking revelation that Israeli soldiers have deliberately shot at unarmed Palestinians aid seekers in Gaza after being “ordered” to do so by their commanders.
Israel ordered an investigation into possible war crimes over the allegations by some soldiers which surfaced in an article written by the Israeli news website Haaretz.
At least 549 Palestinians have been killed and 4,066 injured while waiting for food aid distributed at sites run by the Israeli-and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the Gaza Government Media Office said on Thursday. The GHF has been a source of widespread criticism since its establishment in May.
According to the Haaretz report, which quoted unnamed Israeli soldiers, troops were told to fire at the crowds of Palestinians and use unnecessary lethal force against people who appeared to pose no threat.
“We fired machine guns from tanks and threw grenades,” one soldier told Haaretz. “There was one incident where a group of civilians was hit while advancing under the cover of fog.”
In another instance, a soldier said that where they were stationed in Gaza, between “one and five people were killed every day .. It’s a killing field,” that soldier said.
