Local sources reported that an Israeli helicopter targeted an apartment building near the Haidar Junction, west of Gaza City, killing three Palestinians and wounding others.
In the morning hours, the occupation forces committed a horrific massacre when a drone targeted a group of civilians as they lined up to receive nutritional supplements near a medical point. The strike resulted in the deaths of 14 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and the serious injury of others.
An airstrike northeast of the Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of the city also resulted in the deaths of four Palestinians, including a child, while four others from the Abu Jild family were killed in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after their home was bombed.
In the Nuseirat camp, a Palestinian was killed and 10 others were injured when the camp's market was targeted. Another person was killed in a bombing that targeted the Thabet family's home in the same camp.
In Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, five Palestinians, including two children, were killed and 20 others were injured in an airstrike targeting tents for displaced people near Well 19 in the Mawasi area. The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre by targeting the home of the Othman family in the western camp, killing a mother and three of her children and wounding more than 20 others.
Meanwhile, Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, Thursday morning, triggering a massive displacement amid heavy gunfire and shelling. One Palestinian was killed and several others were injured.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers surprised a number of displaced persons in the vicinity of the Turkish slaughterhouse area south of Khan Yunis this morning, firing bullets and throwing bombs at them, causing panic and confusion .
For its part, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said that the population of the Gaza Strip decreased by 10% compared to what was estimated for mid-2025, according to what the WAFA news agency reported from the center.
The Central Bureau of Statistics noted that, according to recent data, the Gaza Strip has witnessed an unprecedented population decline as a result of the aggression. This decline is due to the increasing number of martyrs and missing persons, the exodus of thousands from the Strip, and a decline in birth rates.
Population estimates indicate that the population has decreased to approximately 2,129,724 people, a 6% decrease compared to the projected estimates for mid-2024. The population has also decreased to 2,114,301 people, a 10% decrease compared to the projected estimates for mid-2025.
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said that a radical change is expected to occur in the age and gender composition of the population in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli occupation army's deliberate targeting of young age groups, particularly children and youth.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with US support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
This war left more than 195,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
