45 Palestinians Killed in 24 Hours as Israeli Assault on Gaza Intensifies

Watan-The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli military fire in the Gaza Strip since Thursday dawn has risen to 45, including two young girls, amid a continuing campaign of genocide, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

Medical sources reported the following distribution of fatalities:

• 27 martyrs in Gaza City and the northern region

• 4 in central Gaza

• 14 in the southern Gaza Strip

Among the attacks:

• The bodies of five Palestinians and several injured arrived at Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli (Baptist) Hospitals in Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike on the Barsh family home in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

• Nine more victims were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after two separate Israeli airstrikes targeted civilians in Old Gaza Street and the Halabi junction in Jabalia town.

• In Zaytoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed in a drone strike, after one of the critically wounded succumbed to injuries.

• Nine displaced civilians were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed the Amr Ibn Al-As School in Sheikh Radwan, which was sheltering refugees.

• In central Gaza, three Palestinians were killed and others wounded while waiting for humanitarian aid near the Wadi Gaza Bridge, close to the Netzarim corridor, according to medical sources.

On Wednesday, Gaza’s Government Media Office reported that in the past month alone, the Israeli-American aid corridor mechanism had resulted in:

• 549 killed

• 4,066 wounded

• 39 missing

Eyewitnesses said that on Thursday:

• A Palestinian was killed in Israeli artillery shelling on Wadi Al-Salqa, southeast of Deir al-Balah.

• Two others were wounded by artillery fire in Al-Bureij refugee camp.

• A civilian was killed in a drone strike near the cemetery area west of Khan Younis.

• Another Palestinian, waiting for aid between Rafah and Khan Younis, was killed and dozens were injured.

In Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, five displaced Palestinians, including two girls, were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent housing the Abu Arab family.

Eyewitnesses also reported:

• Two Palestinians killed in an airstrike near Jaser building, in central Khan Younis.

• Another was killed in a drone strike near the Jordanian field hospital, west of Khan Younis.

Medical sources later confirmed:

• Four additional deaths from Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza, though no immediate details were available.

Eyewitnesses added that Israeli warships opened heavy gunfire on the Khan Younis coastline, further escalating the bombardment.