A medical source at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City reported that seven people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting the hospital's northern vicinity.
In the central Gaza Strip, a medical source at the Ministry of Health said a young Palestinian man was executed by Israeli occupation forces near the Netzarim junction. A medical source at Nasser Hospital confirmed the deaths of four people in a shelling that targeted a tent housing displaced persons near the Taiba Towers, west of Khan Yunis.
In a separate statement, Nasser Hospital announced the deaths of six civilians and dozens of wounded among those waiting for aid near the Morag axis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital also reported that one person was killed and others were injured in a bombing that targeted a civilian gathering in the Al-Bassa area, west of Deir al-Balah. Rami Saadi al-Helou, 40, was also killed in a bombing of his home in the Nuseirat camp.
A large-scale attack on the Zeitoun neighborhood, causing extensive destruction to the residential infrastructure.
On the ground, the Israeli occupation army carried out three house bombings in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza, in addition to two similar operations northwest of Khan Yunis, according to eyewitnesses.
On August 8, the Israeli security cabinet approved a plan to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, as announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On the 11th of the same month, occupation forces launched a large-scale attack on the Zeitoun neighborhood, including the demolition of homes using booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, and forced displacement.
For its part, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that the Israeli occupation army committed what it described as a "horrific crime" in the Zeitoun neighborhood, adding that the occupation forces completely destroyed approximately 400 homes in six days, displacing more than 90,000 civilians from one of Gaza's most densely populated neighborhoods.
The Observatory noted that forces used small drones to surround residential areas and force residents to evacuate their homes under threat, before carrying out systematic destruction operations. It considered this evidence that the objective of the attack was not to achieve legitimate military gains, but rather to target residential infrastructure and force residents to flee.
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The statement added that the bombing also targeted residential areas, shelters, and mosques, resulting in the deaths of dozens of civilians, including 12 members of the Abu Daf family and 9 members of the Irhim family.
Aid distribution centers have turned into killing zones.
In a related development, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the number of casualties in Gaza has tripled daily since the start of aid distribution centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation, which is supported by Israel and the United States.
In a video message posted on Instagram, Mohammed Abu Mughsib, the organization's deputy medical coordinator in Gaza, explained that "food distribution points supported by Israel have become targeted and killing zones," contributing to the doubling of the daily number of infections.
He added that Gaza's health system was fragile before the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023, and that what remains of it now is "a barely functioning skeleton," noting that large numbers of wounded die before reaching hospitals due to the severe shortage of medical and surgical services.
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 1,924 Palestinians waiting for aid have been killed and more than 14,288 others injured since Israel began implementing its aid distribution plan through the Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation on May 27.
Abu Mughsib stressed that Gaza's remaining healthcare facilities are experiencing a rapid collapse in surgical and intensive care services, emphasizing the need for an immediate ceasefire and ensuring the delivery of medical and humanitarian supplies to save the remaining lives and healthcare facilities in the Strip.
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 61,897 Palestinians dead and 155,660 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people were missing, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of 251 people, including 108 children.
