Since Friday morning, at least 12 Palestinians have been killed and others injured as a result of ongoing Israeli airstrikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip, as part of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation army for 22 months.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that "the occupation army's shelling targeted homes, civilian gatherings awaiting aid, and shelters in Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip."
Five aid workers were killed and others were critically injured after being targeted by an Israeli drone near the Kissufim Gate, east of Deir al-Balah.
In a separate raid, an Israeli drone targeted agricultural land east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two brothers.
In the northern Gaza Strip, specifically in the town of Jabalia, a Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians. Meanwhile, during the night and dawn hours, three Palestinians were killed and others were injured while waiting for aid near a center near Netzarim, south of Gaza City.
An Israeli aircraft bombed a civilian gathering near the Snuffur junction in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, killing at least one Palestinian. A separate airstrike targeted the Kahil building next to Al-Shifa Hospital west of Gaza City after an evacuation warning was issued, but no injuries were reported.
In the Al-Daraj neighborhood in eastern Gaza, five Palestinians were injured when an unexploded rocket fired by Israeli warplanes fell on the Musa Bin Nusair School.
Regarding the famine, the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, quoted medical sources as saying that four new deaths, including two children, had been recorded in the past 24 hours as a result of starvation and malnutrition.
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The same sources indicated that the death toll from the starvation policy perpetrated by the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip has risen to 201, including 98 children.
Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza warned that it was "completely out of service" due to a severe shortage of diesel fuel needed to operate its generators, caused by the Israeli blockade.
The hospital said in a statement that the amount of diesel available to it is "very small and is only sufficient to operate the hospital for a limited number of hours." It explained that "if diesel is not secured immediately and urgently, the hospital will be completely out of service," threatening the lives of hundreds of patients and wounded.
This comes at a time when Gaza's hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of medicines and supplies, and a near-total collapse in their diagnostic and treatment capabilities.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only central hospital in the central Gaza Strip, serving tens of thousands of residents amid ongoing war and shortages of medical supplies and fuel.
The Gaza Strip is experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises in its history, with systematic starvation intertwined with a genocidal war waged by Israel since October 7, 2023.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left 61,258 Palestinians dead, 152,045 injured, and more than 9,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
