Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces targeted tents housing displaced persons, residential apartments, and gatherings of civilians waiting to receive American "aid" near distribution centers west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation army announced on Saturday that it had launched approximately 90 airstrikes on various areas in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, coinciding with the ongoing ground operations inside the Strip.
The army claimed in a statement that the raids targeted "military complexes, buildings belonging to militants, and underground infrastructure." Field reports and eyewitness accounts indicate that the bombing focused on displaced persons' tents, civilian homes, and shelters, with casualties, the majority of whom were women and children.
The statement added that its forces are continuing their operations in the northern and central Gaza Strip, with the 98th Division expanding its operations around Gaza City.
This escalation comes amid media reports of "progress" in the ceasefire and prisoner exchange negotiations underway in the Qatari capital, Doha.
Separately, three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting two civilian gatherings in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. Four Palestinians were also killed by Israeli army fire while waiting to receive American aid near a distribution center near the Netzarim axis in the central Gaza Strip.
Five Palestinians were also killed in separate Israeli airstrikes on the cities of Gaza and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Prior to that, 43 Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip stated that Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis had received, since dawn on Saturday, the bodies of 32 martyrs and dozens of wounded as a result of a direct attack on an aid distribution center west of Rafah.
The Ministry of Health warned in a statement on Saturday of a possible famine, confirming a sharp increase in deaths from hunger and malnutrition, given Israel's continued complete closure of the crossings since March 2, 2025, preventing the entry of food and medical aid.
The ministry stated that the Gaza Strip is experiencing a "state of actual famine," manifested in a severe shortage of basic foodstuffs, widespread malnutrition, and a complete lack of medical resources to address the repercussions of the disaster.
According to the statement, the US policy of distributing aid outside UN supervision, which began on May 27, has resulted in the deaths of 877 Palestinians and the injury of more than 5,600 others, as a result of the firing of live ammunition on civilians waiting to receive food.
On Friday, the Government Media Office in Gaza said the number of children who died from malnutrition had risen to 69 since October 7, 2023. It added that the number of Palestinian deaths due to food and medicine shortages had also risen to 620 since October 7, 2023.
In the same context, the death toll from hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has risen, with the Government Media Office documenting the deaths of 69 children since October 7, 2023. The number of Palestinian deaths due to food and medicine shortages has also risen to 620 during the same period.
In a statement, the media office called for the opening of safe and permanent humanitarian corridors, under direct international supervision, to ensure the delivery of food and medicine to all parts of the Gaza Strip without Israeli obstruction. It also called for an urgent international investigation into the "crime of starvation" being perpetrated against the population.
For its part, Hamas called on Saturday for a global movement on Sunday and the following days in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and in protest against what it described as a policy of "systematic starvation and genocide."
She called for tomorrow, Sunday, and the following days to be "international days to expose and condemn the Zionist crimes of genocide and starvation against innocent civilians in Gaza, including children, women, and the sick."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war 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 US-backed genocide left more than 198,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
