Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in Gaza City as humanitarian crisis deepens
Relentless Israeli airstrikes have killed scores of people in the Gaza Strip, where residents continue to grapple with genocide, devastation, and famine.
Gaza officials said that by midday Saturday, more than 50 people had been killed since dawn, including at least 40 in Gaza City.
One strike targeted the home of Majed Abu Salmiya, the brother of Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of the al-Shifa Medical Complex, in the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City. Majed and several of his children were reported among the dead.
In a separate attack, at least six people were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a group of civilians in the Al-Mashahra area of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
Further south, near Rafah, Israeli gunfire killed one person and wounded several others close to an aid distribution center.
Escalating attacks
Gaza City has become the epicenter of recent Israeli attacks, amid what officials describe as a systematic plan to seize control of the entire territory and forcibly displace its population.
According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the Israeli army is carrying out the equivalent of 17 car-bomb explosions every day in Gaza City.
The group said it documented around 120 such blasts in residential neighborhoods during the past week alone.
The Gaza Government Media Office reported that Israeli forces are imposing the forced displacement of some 270,000 Palestinians from Gaza City to the south under relentless bombardment.
Yet, it said, more than 900,000 people remain in Gaza City and the northern strip, refusing to abandon their homes despite the intensity of the attacks.
The media office added that the so-called “shelter zones” designated by Israel in southern Gaza cover no more than 12 percent of the territory's total area, while authorities are attempting to cram over 1.7 million displaced people into these limited spaces.
Since the genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, the region has endured one of the gravest humanitarian crises in recent memory.
The attacks have killed more than 65,000 Palestinians and injured over 166,000, many of them women, children, and aid workers.
Entire neighborhoods have been flattened, while vital civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools, water systems, and bakeries have been systematically destroyed.
The blockade has left Gaza’s 2.2 million residents with dwindling access to food, clean water, and medicine, creating conditions that UN officials have described as “nightmare scale.”
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