The Emergency and Ambulance Service reported that seven people were killed and dozens injured early Wednesday when Israeli aircraft bombed a building housing displaced people near the Firas Market in Gaza City. Four members of the same family were also killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli occupation forces launched flares over the Al-Nasr and Tal Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City at dawn on Wednesday and Tuesday night, amid airstrikes and artillery shelling as the occupation forces continued their advance into several neighborhoods in the city.
Palestinian media outlets published a video clip showing Israeli occupation forces targeting Palestinians as they fled Gaza City.
On Tuesday, 35 Palestinians were killed, and others were injured or missing in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the detonation of car bombs at homes in the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City. The Israeli attacks on neighborhoods in Gaza City and the north resulted in the deaths of 25 Palestinians, according to medical sources reported to Anadolu Agency.
According to eyewitnesses and medical sources speaking to Anadolu Agency, the Israeli attacks targeted homes, tents housing displaced persons, and gatherings of civilians and fishermen off the coast of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
On the ground, the Israeli occupation army continues its presence in several main areas of Gaza City, including the "rocket junction" (north) and the vicinity of schools in the Sheikh Radwan Lake area.
The army is also positioned around the Al-Karama neighborhood (northwest), and earlier on Tuesday advanced about a kilometer toward the northern outskirts of the Al-Nasr neighborhood. On Monday, it advanced hundreds of meters into the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood (southwest), after previously positioning itself around the "Al-Dahdouh Junction," and in the Al-Zeitoun, Al-Shuja'iyya, and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods (east), and the Al-Sabra neighborhood (southeast).
On the humanitarian front, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "The escalating violence near Al-Rantisi Hospital and the Eye Hospital in Gaza has rendered them unsafe and forced patients and staff to flee."
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He added, "Al-Rantisi Hospital was the only specialized hospital for children in Gaza, and the Gaza Eye Hospital was the only facility providing specialized eye care."
He continued: "More lives will be lost as hundreds of thousands remain in Gaza City and health facilities remain closed."
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced on Tuesday that the oxygen station at Al-Quds Hospital in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, had stopped working after coming under Israeli fire. The society warned of the dangerous situation around the hospital.
The association said in a statement that the hospital currently relies on pre-filled oxygen cylinders, sufficient for only three days, which directly threatens patients' lives. It also noted that Israeli vehicles are currently stationed at the hospital's southern gate, preventing entry and exit.
On September 16, the army announced it had launched a "large-scale ground operation" across Gaza City, with the participation of regular and reserve forces from the 98th, 162nd, and 36th Divisions. On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, home to approximately one million Palestinians.
On August 11, the army launched an attack on the city, starting from the Zeitoun neighborhood, in an operation later dubbed "Gideon's Cars 2." The attack included the demolition of homes using explosive-laden armored vehicles, artillery shelling, indiscriminate gunfire, and forced displacement.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 65,382 martyrs and 166,985 wounded, most of them children and women, and a famine that has claimed the lives of 442 Palestinians, including 147 children.
