At least 27 more Palestinians, including six children, were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, targeting homes and groups of civilians across the war-devastated Gaza Strip, as Israel’s genocide continues unabated, reports Anadolu Agency. Wednesday’s assault came as Israel continued to close Gaza’s crossings to humanitarian aid since early March, causing a severe shortage of food supplies in the war-ravaged territory.
In the Northern Gaza governorate, eight Palestinians, including six children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home, according to a medical source.
Two more Palestinians, a father and his son, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, a medical source also told Anadolu.
Rescue operations continue in the area in search of other missing people, according to witnesses.
Four people were killed and several others injured in an airstrike near a mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source said.
Another strike was reported on a charitable soup kitchen in the same camp, killing five people and injuring several others.
Medics said that two more people were killed when fighter jets struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza.
In the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source told Anadolu that two Palestinians were killed, including a woman, in an Israeli strike against a group of civilians in Khan Younis city.
A medical source said that two more Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone attacked a group of civilians in central Khan Younis.
In Rafah in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians, including a woman, lost their lives in two separate Israeli attacks in the Shakoush area.
The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing 830 people, injuring nearly 1,800 others, and shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
The UN estimated that around 124,000 Palestinians have been displaced again since Israel resumed its attacks on Gaza.
More than 50,100 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 113,700 injured in a brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November 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.
