Earlier on Thursday, sources and witnesses reported 45 deaths, including four aid recipients, before the death toll rose to 59.
According to medical sources, "the number of martyrs was distributed as follows: 27 martyrs in Gaza and the north, 18 martyrs in the central Gaza Strip, and 14 in the southern Gaza Strip."
The sources reported that "the bodies of five martyrs and a number of wounded arrived at Al-Shifa and Baptist hospitals in Gaza City, following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the home of the Al-Barsh family in the town of Jabalia, north of the Strip." They continued: "The bodies of nine martyrs also arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, following two separate Israeli airstrikes that targeted two groups of civilians on Old Gaza Street and at the Halabi intersection in Jabalia Al-Balad."
According to medical sources, "the death toll from an Israeli drone strike on a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City has risen to four, after one of the seriously injured people died." They also noted that "nine Palestinians were killed and several others were injured as a result of the occupation forces' bombing of the Amr Ibn al-Aas School, which was sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood."
In the central Gaza Strip, medical sources said that "14 Palestinians were killed and others were injured when an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of citizens in the Deir al-Balah market in the central Gaza Strip." They continued: "Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured among those waiting for humanitarian aid by Israeli army fire in the vicinity of the Wadi Gaza Bridge near the Netzarim axis."
On Wednesday, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported that the death toll from the so-called "Israeli-American aid mechanism" over the course of one month had reached "549 martyrs, 4,066 wounded, and 39 missing."
Eyewitnesses said on Thursday that "a Palestinian was martyred in Israeli artillery shelling of the Wadi al-Salqa area, southeast of Deir al-Balah." They added, "Two Palestinians were wounded in Israeli artillery shelling of the al-Bureij refugee camp."
In the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian was killed by an Israeli drone strike near the cemetery area west of Khan Yunis, according to a medical source and eyewitnesses.
Medical sources reported that "a Palestinian waiting for aid between the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis was martyred, while dozens were injured." Furthermore, "five Palestinians, including two girls, were martyred, and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced persons from the Abu Arab family in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis Governorate."
Eyewitnesses reported that "two Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli attack near the Jasser building in the center of Khan Yunis," while "a Palestinian was martyred in an Israeli drone attack near the Jordanian field hospital west of Khan Yunis," according to medical sources.
Medical sources also reported that "four Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling of the southern Gaza Strip," while eyewitnesses said that "Israeli gunboats opened heavy fire on the coast of Khan Yunis."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide, with American support, left more than 188,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including children.
For 18 years, Israel has been besieging Gaza, leaving approximately 1.5 million Palestinians out of a population of approximately 2.4 million in the Strip homeless after their homes were destroyed in the war of extermination.
