In the latest attack, the Israeli occupation army killed a woman and two children in a shelling that targeted their tent west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to a medical source. This was preceded by the killing of four Palestinians in a shelling that targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the same area, according to the same source.
A medical source said that three Palestinians were killed earlier in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In central Gaza, the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported 17 injuries, including seven women, as a result of an Israeli drone strike targeting a gathering of civilians near an aid distribution point in the vicinity of the so-called "Netzarim checkpoint."
Later, the hospital administration announced the admission of five more casualties as a result of a drone attack on a civilian gathering at the end of Julis Street in Nuseirat. During the day, the Israeli occupation army killed 57 Palestinians and injured 363 others in gunfire as they waited for aid under what is known as the "US-Israeli aid mechanism," according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ministry stated in a statement that "the total number of martyrs who arrived at hospitals from areas designated for aid distribution has reached 224 martyrs and more than 1,858 injured," since May 27.
The Israeli occupation forces targeted Palestinians waiting for aid in areas of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and near the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City. A medical source reported that civil defense crews recovered the bodies of 11 Palestinians killed overnight as a result of Israeli shelling across Gaza. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians and wounded several others in shelling that targeted a civilian gathering in the city of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, according to eyewitnesses.
Israel has pushed Palestinians in Gaza to the brink of starvation by closing the crossings for more than 100 days, a deliberate act of starvation that paves the way for forced displacement, according to the government media office in the enclave. On May 27, it began distributing aid through a body supported by it and Washington, outside the supervision of the United Nations, which it refuses to recognize. Food is being distributed in "buffer zones" in southern and central Gaza amid chaos and repeated Israeli gunfire on the starving, resulting in deaths and injuries.
Continuous losses for the occupation in the Gaza battles
Two Israeli soldiers were moderately wounded Wednesday evening in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, when the tank they were traveling in was hit by an RPG, according to Israeli Army Radio.
The radio station reported that "an officer and a conscript sustained moderate injuries when an RPG shell hit the tank they were traveling in in Khan Yunis." It noted that they were taken to the hospital for treatment, without identifying their names, while their families have been notified.
Simultaneously, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that it had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 missile near the Abu Sharkh junction in the Al-Batn Al-Sameen area south of Khan Yunis. The Qassam Brigades did not announce further details regarding the results of the operation or its exact timing.
This attack is the second reported incident in Khan Yunis within hours. Earlier on Wednesday, Channel 13 reported that two Israeli soldiers were moderately wounded by gunfire from Palestinian fighters in the same area, without providing further details.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Qassam Brigades announced that they had successfully sniped an Israeli soldier with a "Ghoul" rifle east of Khan Yunis. They indicated that their fighters had spotted an Israeli helicopter landing for evacuation, without providing further details.
In a related development, the Israeli occupation army and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday evening that the bodies of two prisoners had been recovered from the Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip, during a military operation by the army and the internal security service (Shin Bet). The army said the operation to recover the bodies of the two prisoners was "carried out by a force from the 36th Division based on accurate intelligence."
According to official Israeli military data, 866 soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, including 424 since the start of the ground invasion of the Strip on October 27. The number of wounded soldiers has reached 5,844, including 2,705 since the ground invasion of the Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left more than 182,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 \r[. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and famine claimed the lives of many, including children, as well as widespread destruction.,
