The Emergency and Ambulance Authority reported the recovery of the bodies of four Palestinians killed while attempting to reach humanitarian aid near the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip.
The past few hours have witnessed a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting homes and tents housing displaced persons, as well as gatherings of civilians awaiting food aid. This comes amid ongoing military operations, now in their 22nd month, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
In Deir al-Balah, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced persons, and 22 others were killed in separate attacks, including five aid seekers near a distribution point west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a separate incident, 25 civilians were killed early this morning when a food aid truck overturned in the central Gaza Strip, as hundreds of people crowded around it.
The government media office explained that the truck was forced to pass through unsafe roads that had previously been bombed, causing it to overturn and fall on civilians.
The office asserted that the incident was part of an Israeli policy aimed at creating chaos and intensifying starvation by forcing trucks to pass through routes crowded with hungry people.
In the same context, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza stated that the airdrops of aid resulted in casualties and the destruction of tents and property, and accused Israel of using these operations as a means to intensify chaos as part of its "starvation engineering" policy.
Human rights and UN reports: There are no safe places in Gaza.
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In a report released Thursday, Human Rights Watch asserted that Israeli attacks on schools housing displaced persons in Gaza were indiscriminate and unlawful, using American munitions, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and the near-total destruction of educational infrastructure.
The organization documented several attacks on refugee schools in the Gaza Strip, including two schools in Deir al-Balah and the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in 2024, which resulted in the deaths of 49 people, without finding any evidence of military targets. It also noted that Israel has not provided any explanations for these strikes.
Human Rights Watch asserted that targeting schools housing displaced persons constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, as these facilities are considered protected civilian sites, and their use to shelter civilians does not alter their legal status.
Between July 1 and 10, 2025, the United Nations reported that Israel bombed at least 10 schools used as shelters, killing 59 civilians. UNRWA noted that Israel had killed more than 836 displaced persons inside schools since the beginning of the war, and that more than 2,500 others had been injured.
According to UN data, 97% of Gaza's schools have been damaged, and 92% of them need extensive reconstruction or renovation, deepening the educational crisis and significantly impacting children and their families.
For its part, UNRWA expressed concern over the escalating crisis, stressing that the killing of civilians while searching for food "cannot continue." It called for the immediate and unconditional opening of crossings and for humanitarian agencies to be enabled to carry out their duties.
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, with American support, left 61,158 Palestinian martyrs and 151,442 wounded, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people remain missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
