The attacks targeted homes in Gaza City, tents housing displaced people in the west, and those waiting for aid in the south and center of the Strip, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
On Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces detonated booby-trapped robots while simultaneously launching raids on homes in central and eastern Khan Yunis. Several people were also killed and wounded when the occupation targeted those waiting for aid near Kissufim, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli genocide since October 7, 2023, has risen to "61,599 martyrs and 154,088 wounded."
The ministry said in a daily statistical statement: "100 martyrs and 513 injuries arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours." It noted that the death toll from Palestinian casualties since Israel resumed its offensive in the Strip on March 18 has risen to "10,078 martyrs and 42,047 injuries."
She explained that the death toll among Palestinian victims awaiting US aid has risen since May 27 to "1,838 martyrs and more than 13,409 injuries," following the martyrdom of 31 Palestinians and the injury of 388 others in the past 24 hours.
On Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces killed four Palestinians waiting for aid east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Prior to that, 49 Palestinians were killed in separate attacks across the Strip.
In Gaza and the north, the Israeli occupation army killed two Palestinians and wounded more than 50 others when a drone targeted a popular market in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. In the northwest of the Gaza Strip, the army killed two Palestinians waiting for aid near the Zikim crossing.
In Gaza City, six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting two civilian gatherings. The first occurred in the crowded Maghribi Market on Al-Thalathini Street, killing four people, and the second occurred near Al-Abbas Junction west of the city, killing two people. Four Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Al-Hosari family's home in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Four Palestinians were killed and others went missing when Israel bombed the al-Nadim family home on al-Nadim Street in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood. In the south of the city, a Palestinian was killed and others went missing when Israel bombed the Salmi family home west of the university college.
Israeli military vehicles also targeted the roof of a home belonging to the Al-Habil family in the Al-Balakhiya area of the Shati' al-Shamali refugee camp, west of Gaza City, with a shell. No injuries were reported.
Seven Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes, four of them in a bombing of an apartment building in the Al-Sahaba area of Gaza City, and three in a targeting of a civilian gathering near Sheikh Radwan Lake, north of the city.
In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a civilian vehicle east of the central governorate. Five Palestinians, including a child, were also killed and 11 others waiting for US-Israeli aid were injured by Israeli army fire near a distribution point in the vicinity of the Netzarim axis.
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In the southern Gaza Strip, seven Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes. The first targeted a gathering of civilians in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, while the second targeted tents housing displaced people in the industrial area west of the city. Five Palestinians, including a father, a mother, and their two children, were also killed, and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Al-Majayda neighborhood in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.
Four Palestinians waiting for US aid were killed by Israeli occupation forces near a distribution center south of Khan Yunis.
Displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to Sudan
In a related development, the Associated Press reported that Israel is holding talks with South Sudan about the possibility of "transferring" Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the East African country. This is part of Tel Aviv's US-sponsored forced displacement plan, which has faced widespread Arab, Islamic, and international rejection due to its violation of international and humanitarian law.
The US agency quoted six unnamed people familiar with the matter as saying that "talks have already taken place between Israel and South Sudan, which is suffering from a financial crisis (and has suffered from a civil war for years), but it is not clear how far these talks have progressed."
South Sudanese authorities were not immediately available for comment on the report. The agency also reported that the Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to comment. South Sudan's foreign minister did not respond to questions about the talks. A US State Department spokesperson said the department does not comment on private diplomatic talks.
The Associated Press reported that "if these talks become an agreement, they will help South Sudan build closer ties with Israel, which is a potential opportunity to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, which he proposed last February but has apparently backed down from in recent months."
The agency reported that it had previously reported on "similar talks initiated by Israel and the United States with Sudan and Somalia, two countries also suffering from war and famine, as well as the breakaway Somali region known as Somaliland. The fate of these discussions is unknown."
In a related development, the privately owned Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Israel is holding talks with five countries, including South Sudan, regarding the resettlement of forcibly displaced persons from Gaza. The newspaper noted that South Sudan's deputy foreign minister visited Israel last week, without further details.
Earlier, the private Israeli Channel 12 reported that the head of the Israeli Mossad, David Barnea, met with the US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, in Washington and requested his assistance in displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to countries such as Libya. This news was strongly denied by Libya, as was the US embassy in Tripoli.
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 Israeli genocide left 61,499 Palestinians dead, 153,575 injured, and more than 9,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
