Medical sources indicated that the death toll is likely to rise as the bombardment continues, targeting displaced persons' tents, homes, and civilian gatherings in the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strip.
In the northern Gaza Strip, seven Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a family home in the Sabra neighborhood , south of Gaza City .
A child was killed in the Saftawi neighborhood, north of the city, after his family's home was bombed. Another Palestinian was killed in an airstrike near the Ghafri intersection on Al-Jalaa Street in the city center. Five people remain missing under the rubble.
A drone also targeted the Al-Zeitoun and Al-Majdal schools, which house displaced families, with several bombs, while the Israeli occupation forces continued their bombing operations with booby-trapped robots targeting residential buildings in the northern Jabalia Al-Nazla neighborhood and the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City.
In the central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian couple were killed in the al-Sawarha area, west of al-Nuseirat, when an Israeli drone targeted a tent housing displaced persons.
A Palestinian was also killed and others injured in an airstrike on a house in Block 7 of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, while a number of missing persons, including women and children, remain under the rubble.
In Deir al-Balah, a helicopter strike on a warehouse housing displaced persons on Akila Street resulted in the deaths of a mother and her infant. Another civilian was also shot dead on the Netzarim axis.
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In the southern Gaza Strip, six Palestinians, including a couple and their three children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent for displaced people opposite the Qarara port, northwest of Khan Yunis. Artillery shelling also targeted the vicinity of Asdaa prison, north of Khan Yunis, but no injuries were reported.
The number of starvation victims is rising.
In this context, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the death toll from Israeli starvation and malnutrition has risen to 303 Palestinians since October 7, including 117 children.
The ministry recorded three deaths in the past 24 hours, all of them adults, due to starvation and malnutrition, amid the ongoing Israeli blockade that prevents the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, preventing any humanitarian aid from entering the territory. This has plunged the Strip into a state of famine, despite the backlog of aid trucks at its borders. Israel allows only very limited quantities of aid into the Strip, which fail to meet the minimum needs of the starving population.
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 Israeli genocide left 62,744 Palestinians martyred, 158,259 wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.
