In Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, Ahmed Hisham Abu Dalal, owner of Istanbul Kitchen, was killed in an airstrike west of the camp, while Israeli drones targeted a site in the same area.
Abu Dalal was known for his humanitarian initiative to feed the displaced, and his martyrdom represents a severe blow to popular relief efforts amid the worsening famine caused by the ongoing siege.
In Gaza City, Israeli warplanes launched a series of violent raids on the Zeitoun neighborhood, concentrated around the slaughterhouse street. Drones also fired at homes. The bombing also extended to the Tuffah neighborhood and the northern areas of the city, at a time when the northern Gaza Strip has been witnessing repeated attacks for days.
In Khan Yunis, Israeli aircraft bombed a house near Al-Shafi'i Mosque, west of the city, resulting in a number of injuries. A new airstrike was also carried out on Khan Yunis camp.
Artillery shelling of the town of Khuza'a, east of the city, killed one Palestinian and seriously injured another. One injury was also recorded in shelling targeting the Al-Manara area, south of Khan Yunis.
Ambulance crews recovered three martyred farmers from the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah, after they were targeted by a drone missile.
The city of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, also witnessed artillery shelling targeting homes on Al-Manshiya and Muslim streets, killing one Palestinian and wounding several others, coinciding with new airstrikes on the city.
In Deir al-Balah, several Palestinians were injured in an artillery attack targeting an apartment building in the Qastal Towers, east of the city. Meanwhile, warplanes carried out raids on the eastern areas of Gaza City, firing at Palestinians around the Dawla Junction in the Zeitoun neighborhood, causing a number of Palestinian casualties.
A girl also died this morning from wounds she had previously sustained in a bombing in Khan Yunis.
Medical sources said that the ongoing shelling since dawn on Wednesday has resulted in the deaths of at least 30 Palestinians, including children and women. A number of them were buried in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In the humanitarian context, Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, stated that the occupying state is systematically using food as a weapon against Palestinians, committing genocide and war crimes. He accused the occupation of using children's lives as bargaining chips and called on the international community to impose immediate sanctions on Israel.
Ruth James, Oxfam International's Humanitarian Coordinator, also called for urgent global intervention to prevent genocide in Gaza, warning that the humanitarian situation in the Strip had reached an unprecedented level of deterioration.
Since March 2, Israel has closed the Gaza Strip's crossings to the entry of food, relief, medical aid, and goods, causing a significant deterioration in the humanitarian situation for Palestinians, according to government, human rights, and international reports.
The 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza are entirely dependent on this aid after Israel's ongoing genocide over the past 19 months rendered them impoverished, according to World Bank data.
