Israeli attacks targeted homes and people waiting for aid, resulting in deaths and injuries in the north, center, and south of the Gaza Strip.
In Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed and others injured when a house was bombed in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city.
12 Palestinians were also killed in Israeli shelling that targeted three tents housing displaced people in three separate attacks in Khan Yunis.
In the city center, three Palestinians were killed when Israel bombed two civilian gatherings, while two bodies were recovered from the eastern areas of Khan Yunis.
In the central Gaza Strip, 10 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others were injured after the Israeli occupation forces targeted aid workers with live ammunition on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area, and on the Netzarim axis.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the death toll from aid distribution centers run by the US-Israeli mechanism had risen to 600 martyrs and 4,278 wounded since the mechanism began operating on May 27.
Beyond the supervision of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing a plan on May 27 to distribute limited aid through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," which is supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.
In the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, eight Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment in the Al-Mashahra area. The Tuffah and Al-Zeitoun neighborhoods were also subjected to heavy shelling by Israeli warplanes and artillery overnight.
Evacuation of 4 neighborhoods in Khan Yunis
On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation army warned residents of four neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, to "immediately evacuate," in preparation for a possible bombing, allegedly after rockets were fired from them. This was stated in a statement by army spokesman Avichay Adraee, posted on his official Twitter account.
The statement came after the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility for launching rockets at the Israeli settlements of Nir Yitzhak and Miftahim, adjacent to the Gaza Strip, from an area "where Israeli military vehicles are located north of Khan Yunis," according to the statement.
Adraee warned all residents of the Khan Yunis area, including the neighborhoods of Al-Jalaa, Hamad City, Al-Nasr, and Al-Qarara 6 in Blocks 36, 40, and 89, to "evacuate their homes immediately."
Evacuation warnings are usually followed moments later by Israeli shelling targeting those areas, and in most cases the shelling begins before people have even left.
The United Nations confirmed that 82% of Gaza's areas are subject to Israeli evacuation orders, with increasingly limited shelter and livelihood opportunities for residents. Meanwhile, UNRWA and the World Food Programme warned of a worsening hunger crisis and shortages of essential supplies, amid ongoing bombardment and the lack of adequate humanitarian aid.
“Lack of livelihood opportunities”
The United Nations also warned in a statement that more vital facilities in Gaza may soon close, exacerbating the tragedy of civilians living under the pressure of displacement and continuous bombardment.
She said that many families who fled schools that were recently bombed by Israel "have now returned to northern Gaza, largely due to a lack of alternative livelihood opportunities and limited shelter elsewhere."
The statement indicated that five school buildings housing displaced families in the northern Gaza Strip were bombed over the past 48 hours, resulting in deaths and injuries.
In this context, the statement quoted UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric as saying that Israeli operations "have intensified in Gaza since the issuance of the latest displacement order last Sunday, with at least 1,500 families displaced from the northern Gaza Strip, as well as from the eastern part of Gaza City."
Dujarric warned of "dwindling humanitarian aid and basic services, increasingly depriving the people of Gaza of the means to survive."
He stressed that the current situation in the Gaza Strip "represents a warning that requires urgent action to secure the opening of all crossings and facilitate all humanitarian operations, including the effective flow of essential life-saving supplies."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the operation. This has left approximately 191,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced
